Practitioners should note that Chief Registrar’s Circular 28 of 2013 has been withdrawn and substituted by Chief Registrar’s Circular 1 of 2022. The Circular deals with the impact of certain provisions of the Companies Act, as amended, and is available here.
Marsh’s latest insight on Cyber resilience: Twelve key controls to strengthen your security. The whitepaper explores all 12 recommended cybersecurity controls and their characteristics and requirements. View the whitepaper here.
The Rules Board is inviting comments on a proposed amendment to Uniform Rules 45 and 46 to provide for the conduct of online public auctions for sales in execution. The proposed amendments appear on our website. Practitioners are welcome to send their comments to kris@lssa.org.za by 30 May 2022 or directly to the Rules Board. The LSSA […]
The Deputy Judge President of the Gauteng Division, Johannesburg, issued an important notice regarding new measures introduced in the unopposed motion court in the 2nd and 3rd term of 2022. Practitioners are urged to peruse the notice. Read the notice here.
The SALRC released a report on its investigation into various aspects of prescription (Harmonisation of existing laws providing for different prescription periods – Project 125). The report includes recommendations on a review of the three-year general prescription period and the issue of delaying the running of prescription. The report was submitted for consideration to the […]
The Minister of Justice and Correctional Services issued a notice regarding the conversion of certain places as branch courts and periodical courts, with effect from 1 April 2022. This is pending the implementation of the broader rationalisation and re-alignment process of magisterial districts. The lists of new magisterial districts and sub-districts for KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern […]
The Law Society of South Africa (LSSA) is dismayed at the manner in which legal practitioner Malesela Teffo was arrested in the Gatueng Division of the High Court in Pretoria on 28 April 2022. Mr Teffo was arrested in court, in full view of the media and the circumstances that led to him being arrested […]
Click here to view and download the new guidelines on Conveyancing fees, effective from 16 May 2022.
