When you are struggling to recover your money from a recalcitrant debtor company, applying for its liquidation can be a very powerful collection tool.

Because websites are a vital part of many businesses, if you are buying a business you need to perform a due diligence on the website.

Chances are that at some point in your career, a lawyer — yours, or someone else’s — will want to review notes you took at a meeting or during a phone conversation.

For new entrepreneurs, building a business can be a period of trial and error. Part of the adventure is wading through daunting legal matters.

Many startups spend more than R50,000.00 on legal bills over the course of their first year. For a bootstrapped startup, that can amount to more than 25 percent of the company’s startup capital.

This brief article focuses on rescission of judgments in the High Court and not the Magistrates’ Court which will be dealt with in a different article.

It always has fascinated us how businesses, both large and small, view legal advice and lawyers.

In a South African first, Judge Esther Steyn, sitting in the Durban High Court, made history yesterday when she approved service of court documents on one Mr Odendaal by way of Facebook.

Court proceedings often result in relief being granted after an extended period of time.