Entries by Isabel Joubert
Cyber resilience: 12 key controls to strengthen your security
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.
Rules Board invitation for comments
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 […]
Notice from Deputy Judge President
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.
SALRC – investigation into various aspects of prescription
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 […]
New magisterial districts
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 […]
Arrest of legal practitioner Malesela Teffo
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 […]
New guidelines on Conveyancing fees
Click here to view and download the new guidelines on Conveyancing fees, effective from 16 May 2022.
4 THINGS YOU CAN DO TO KEEP YOURSELF CYBER SAFE
Cyber scams are nothing new. Every day, con artists are looking for the best “marks.” Think you’re not worth being the target of online predators? Think again! Hackers don’t need to know how much is in your bank account to want to get into it. Your identity, your financial data, what’s in your […]
Newly elected President and Vice-Presidents
The Law Society of South Africa (LSSA) elected Mabaeng Denise Lenyai as President, and Joanne Anthony-Gooden and Ntlai Eunice Masipa as Vice-Presidents at its conference and Annual General Meeting in Kempton Park on 23 March 2022. This is a historic moment for the LSSA because it is the first time the organisation has a […]
