Legal Articles and Guides
Groundbreaking judgment on maternity leave for fathers
In what a Pretoria News report calls a groundbreaking judgment for new parents – especially fathers – a court has ruled that both parents are entitled to maternity leave.
Court orders custody inquiry into bitter child dispute
The Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) has ordered a clinical psychologist and a family advocate to investigate a custody arrangement for a 13-year-old boy whose father died suddenly while picking him up from school in February.
Discovery wants clarity on RAF claims directive
Discovery Health is to seek clarity from the courts on the interpretation by the Road Accident Fund (RAF) of the Constitutional Court ruling dismissing the RAF’s application for leave to appeal a High Court judgment that ruled unlawful its directive not to make payments to medical aid scheme claimants.
Weekend jail for father in bitter divorce case
A Johannesburg father will spend the next two weekends in prison until he completes his 14-day sentence following his failure to pay spousal maintenance to his wife.
ConCourt rejects RAF medical scheme appeal bid
The Constitutional Court has rejected the application by the Road Accident Fund (RAF) to appeal against a High Court ruling compelling it to resume payments to medical schemes.
SCA dismisses claims for medical negligence
A mother's attempt to claim damages from the Eastern Cape Health Department after her child suffered brain damage has failed in the SCA.
Judgment reserved in homeless eviction bid
The impending eviction of more than 100 homeless people living in seven encampment sites across the City of Cape Town centre will come to finality later this year.
Father faces jail term for not paying maintenance
After a man refused to obey a court order to pay maintenance, including medical fees to his ailing ex-wife, Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) Judge Portia Nkutha-Nkontwana sentenced him to six months in jail suspended for a year on condition that he pays the arrears.
Another setback for Discovery Health in RAF scrap
Discovery Health has suffered a setback in its legal wrangle with the Road Accident Fund (RAF) over medical schemes’ right to claim reimbursements for past medical expenses from the fund.
‘Draconian’ RAF changes will cost consumers
Proposed ‘draconian’ provisions in the draft Road Accident Fund (RAF) Amendment Bill of 2023 are likely to cause a jump in medical aid premiums as the industry is forced to mitigate the risk of members not being covered by the fund, experts warn.
LHR takes Home Affairs to court over blocked IDs
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) is challenging the Department of Home Affairs' ‘arbitrary’ ID blocking practice without which births can't be registered, child support and other grants can't be accessed and children are excluded from or discriminated against at school, and struggle to access health care and immunisation programmes.
How payment switch service botched SRD grants
About 600 000 social grant recipients were left high and dry for more than a week by Postbank’s toxic mix of mismanagement, failure to pay service providers, and an allegedly ‘rushed’ decision to appoint a new contractor.
Rogue lawyer claims innocence in R24m settlement
Suspended fraud-accused lawyer Zuko Nonxuba obtained a R24m settlement for a child left severely disabled by state negligence five years ago – but insists his mother is not owed any of that money because the child died.
Watchdog to probe J&J over TB drug price
The Competition Commission has launched an investigation into whether pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) overcharged SA for lifesaving tuberculosis (TB) drug bedaquiline, reports Fin24.
Nurses allegedly faked birth of twins for benefits
Two nurses face fraud and corruption charges for allegedly faking the birth of twins at a provincial hospital to enable a relative to pocket the child support grant.
