Legal Articles and Guides

The Constitutional Court has ruled that Clara Phillips (85), who lives on a farm in Somerset West, must vacate the only home she has known since 1947.

Stellenbosch University (SU) has welcomed a Western Cape High Court judgment which declared that the university did not violate its language policy.

The issue of awaiting-trial accused who are not out on bail and often sit behind bars for years before they are sentenced – and then receive a life sentence – should be looked at by the SCA.

Multiple reports – which provide extraordinary new insight into convicted killer Oscar Pistorius' life behind bars – all support his release on parole, reports News24.

National Treasury yesterday said it will update Parliament soon on plans to update banking regulations to bring them in line with the State Capture Inquiry's recommendations on the closure of bank accounts.

The state has lost its application for state capture accused Eric Wood to pay an additional R2m bail to guarantee his return to SA, reports TimesLIVE.

Social media law expert Emma Sadleir Berkowitz has warned that a new change rolling out to WhatsApp can lead to legal trouble for group admins in SA.

In what a Cape Argus report calls a scathing indictment of the eight accused men in the ‘Black Axe’ online romance scam case, Western Cape High Court Judge Daniel Thulare has said the fact that SA advertises itself as being open for business and alive with possibilities is not an invitation to criminally minded foreign nationals to come and take advantage of the people.

Convicted killer Oscar Pistorius has turned to the courts to compel authorities to hold a parole hearing for him. However, the authorities now argue that the former Paralympian is not eligible for release.

The DA has welcomed the ruling by the SCA to reject Ingonyama Trust’s appeal to set aside a KZN High Court (Pietermaritzburg) ruling which declared the Trust’s policy of making communal land occupants sign leases and pay rent as unlawful.

The matter of cannabis versus labour laws is due to come under legal scrutiny in the Labour Appeal Court, says a report in The Star.

Former President Jacob Zuma’s tax records are safe from media scrutiny – for now. Media houses made a concession about obtaining them in the Constitutional Court yesterday, saying they would ‘leave that fight for another day', and focused on a constitutional challenge to the legislation that creates an absolute prohibition on the public ever accessing tax records, notes legal journalist Franny Rabkin in a Sunday Times Daily report.

Issues involving former President Jacob Zuma will feature in court again today – the second time in as many weeks. This time he aims to halt publication of his tax records from 2010 to 2018, notes a Business Day report.

The use of corporal punishment has far-reaching effects and can cause mental and physical harm to children as well as short and long-term aggression and anti-social behaviour in pupils, even as they mature.

Members of the Fish Hoek Community Policing Forum allegedly received a hostile reception and were refused permission to speak to a man being severely assaulted by two police officers in a video that has since gone viral.