by Nicole Dayanand | Sep 5, 2022 | Newsletter
Every August our country marks National Women’s Day where we pay tribute to the women who marched to the Union Buildings on 9 August 1956. This forms part of Women’s Month which gives us an opportunity to pay tribute to the trailblazers who laid the foundation to...
by Xoliswa Maaroganye | Sep 5, 2022 | Newsletter
In celebration of Women’s Month, our Johannesburg office hosted its annual Women’s Day Event on 17 August 2022 at Constitution Hill. This event catered specifically for the legal needs of women from the communities served by the Community Advice Offices we work with....
by Percy Koketso Motiang | Jun 24, 2022 | Newsletter
After a long period of unfair discrimination experienced by spouses who concluded their marriage after the commencement of the Matrimonial Property Act on 1 November 1984, the Pretoria High Court came to their rescue on 11 May 2022 and held that; the exclusionary...
by Xoliswa Maaroganye | Jun 24, 2022 | Newsletter, STAFF NEWS
At the end of May we said farewell to Johannesburg intern Sibusiso Makhukhule, whose one-year contract came to an end. He made an invaluable contribution to the deceased estates department and has expressed his gratitude for the experience gained. We wish him success...
by Xoliswa Maaroganye | Jun 24, 2022 | Newsletter
From left to right: Samantha Misner, Teresa Yates (ProBono.Org National Director), Mikaela Cheslock, Mpho Mogodi (ProBono.Org staff attorney), SerenaMeghji and Calaeb Goff. On 12 May we were visited by four Canadian law students who, through the SASLAW pro bono fellow...
by Elsabe Steenhuisen | Jun 24, 2022 | Newsletter
As we all know, in order to ensure legal representation for a child, in the past we mainly used the application procedure for the appointment of curators – either ad litem, and/or ad persona and/or ad bonis, depending on the type of case at hand. We used Uniform Court...
