Are you planning to open a guesthouse?  Or perhaps you live next door to an existing guesthouse and for some reason want to have it shut down?

Either way, you need to know what your rights are, and what you will have to prove if you end up in a court battle.  By way of illustration we discuss an attempt by residents of a quiet suburb to shut down a guesthouse amidst allegations of noise, wild parties and nuisance guests. 

The Court’s decision is as important for all would-be guesthouse owners as it is for their neighbours.

 The fact that debts prescribe (become uncollectable after a period of time) presents as much of a threat to a creditor as it does an opportunity to a debtor so it’s important for both to understand the process. 

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.