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Employers must take note of requirements of Code of Good Practice
[Mohsina Chenia and Sean Jamieson] Employers are often faced with the situation where an employee can no longer fulfil their prescribed duties due to incapacity... read more>>



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Roads bill would cut need for legal assistance

Linda Ensor

Actuaries in the Department of Transport are looking into four aspects of the Road Accident Benefit Schemes Bill, which were flagged as problematic at public consultations... read more>>
Contracts can make or break an artist's career

Stephen Hollis

Fortunes are lost and made in the recording industry. Many a recording artist may find themselves a casualty of unsound business practices... read more>>
Commercial Law
SCA clarifies relationship between VAT vendor and SARS

Graeme Palmer

The basic principle of VAT is that a vendor must account to the South African Revenue Service (SARS) for output tax on taxable supplies made after deducting any input tax incurred by him... read more>>
SARS releases ruling on sale of shares

Heinrich Louw

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) released Binding Private Ruling No 189 on 19 February 2015, which dealt with the sale of shares subject to suspensive conditions... read more>>
Caution required as infrastructure sharing deals

Harriet Beamish

In the current economy, proven benefits and technological advances are underpinning the rise of shared infrastructure models across business sectors... read more>>
Cyber Law
Protecting IP in campaign tendering

Nola Bond

In a free market environment, the tender process is important to ensure fairness and transparency but a practice has developed whereby those tendering are often required to relinquish their ideas, proposals and intellectual property, even if their tender is unsuccessful, and with no compensation... read more>>
Labour Law
Retrenchments: With whom must an employer consult?

Gillian Lumb, Anli Bezuidenhout and Mari Bester

When an employer contemplates retrenching one or more of its employees it is obliged in terms of s189(1) of the Labour Relations Act, 66 of 1995 (LRA) to consult with any person whom the employer is required to consult in terms of a collective agreement... read more>>
International
India asks YouTube to block banned rape film
NEW DEHLI, INDIA: India said on Thursday it had asked YouTube to block access to a documentary about a savage gang-rape in Delhi, after barring broadcasters from airing the film... (Videos) read more>>
New media, New China: Xinhua relaunch on barred networks
BEIJING, CHINA: China's official news agency Xinhua has re-launched its English-language presence on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, it announced - all of which are blocked in China... read more>>
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Africa
Al Jazeera slams trial delay
CAIRO, EGYPT: Al Jazeera has slammed the second delay in the trial of its two remaining journalists still in custody in the Egyptian capital... read more>>
Burundi set to ease media restrictions
BUJUMBURA, BURUNDI: BD Live reports Burundi's national assembly has approved a draft media law, backtracking from contentious 2013 legislation that was denounced by reporters and rights groups... read more>>
More Africa
Government news
Government says it is determined to flush out the frauds
Government says it is determined to flush out public servants who misrepresent their academic qualifications... read more>>
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Jobs offered
Coordinator - Blended Learning/Information and Communication Tech - Cape Town
Stellenbosch University currently seeks to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced coordinator (law): blended learning/information and communication technology (ICT) (Ref. RG00/055/0215). Applications close: 16 March 2015 Read more >>



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