Gender-based violence during COVID-19: a human rights violation

by PB-M-Admin | Oct 1, 2020 | COVID 19 Related News, News, NEWSLETTERS 2020

By Siyabonga Zondi and Sinothile Zondi (Durban interns)   The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the founding document of the United Nations, states that the “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of...

When a delay is a denial!

by PB-M-Admin | Oct 1, 2020 | ARTICLES OF INTEREST, News, Newsletter, NEWSLETTERS 2020

National Adoption Coalition v Head of Department of Social Development for KwaZulu-Natal NO 2020 (4) SA 284 (KZN) (“National Adoption Coalition case” By Dante Adams, Fasken In the Charles Dickens novel, Great Expectations, young Pip remarks that: “In the little world...

Sheriff’s costs in Children’s Court cases – who should pay?

by PB-M-Admin | Oct 1, 2020 | ARTICLES OF INTEREST, News, Newsletter, NEWSLETTERS 2020

By Elsabe Steenhuisen   Introduction The disbursements in cases ProBono.Org refers to legal practitioners (“LPs”), are mostly sponsored by the LPs, such as their travel expenses and photocopies. But what about the sheriff’s costs, which can be a substantial...

Temporary Employment Services (Labour Brokers) and their future in the South African labour spectrum

by PB-M-Admin | Aug 27, 2020 | ARTICLES OF INTEREST, News, Newsletter, NEWSLETTERS 2020

By Siyabonga Zondi, Durban Intern   The use of temporary employment services (TES), better known as labour brokers, in the South African labour market has always been a topic that has polarised opinion, in both the political and the legal environment. The Labour...

What happens to your assets when you die?

by PB-M-Admin | Aug 27, 2020 | ARTICLES OF INTEREST, News, Newsletter, NEWSLETTERS 2020

By Mukethwa Chauke – Johannesburg   The concept of succession is not a foreign concept in our African legal system. In customary law the heirs of the deceased were determined through the male line ,referred to as the male primogeniture rule, which is well known...

Can an administrator’s decision to refuse asylum be substituted by an order of the High Court?

by PB-M-Admin | Aug 27, 2020 | ARTICLES OF INTEREST, COVID 19 Related News, News, Newsletter, NEWSLETTERS 2020

By Obakeng Phatshwane (Candidate Attorney, Fasken)   Given the impact of COVID 19 and the plight of asylum seekers, this decision remains crucial for those seeking asylum. The substitution by a court of an administrator’s decision2 in granting asylum is a...