This 3-part series on your will outlines certain important points to ensure your will is valid and drafted in accordance with the law. This second article discusses the importance of updating your will after divorce.

This 3-part series on your will outlines certain important points to ensure your will is valid and drafted in accordance with the law. This first article looks at the validation of signatories on the will.

The Office of the Chief Registrar of Deeds is piloting a project to facilitate an Electronic Deeds Registration System (e-DRS).

The new Property Practitioners Act aims to better regulate and monitor processes, and has been heralded by estate agents as a vast improvement on the Estate Agency Affairs Act.

While there are many factors that influence property buyers’ preferred investment, as experienced property lawyers we’ve selected a few points that are commonly considered by when purchasing property.

An Apostille certificate simply means that your document that originates in South Africa has been authenticated or legalised by The Legalisation Section at the Department of International relations and Cooperation (DIRCO), or the Registrar of the High Court of South Africa, thereby authenticating the origin of a public document. 

New regulation coming into effect on 25 February 2019 makes it more difficult and expensive to replace lost title deeds.

Buying into any form of community scheme means binding yourself to comply with all the scheme’s rules and regulations. Read and understand these rules before you buy - our courts will usually hold you to them.

Dismissal from employment is a drastic remedy, and not lightly upheld by our courts.  But where an employee breaches his/her general duty to act loyally, honestly and in their employers’ best interests, it’s certainly on the table.

Delay suing your debtor for too long and you lose your right to claim forever.  That’s the practical effect of our law of prescription, and it’s like throwing money away.  It’s also totally avoidable.