President Cyril Ramaphosa has nominated Justice Mandisa Maya for the position of Chief Justice of South Africa (SA) and Justice Dumisani Zondi, as the Deputy President of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA). This was announced by the presidency in a media statement. The statement noted that in terms of s 174(3) of the Constitution,
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Judge Motha questions legal practitioners on equality
Section 9(2) of the Constitution of South Africa states that:
‘Equality includes the full and equal enjoyment of all rights and freedoms. To promote the achievement of equality, legislative and other measures designed to protect or advance persons, or categories, disadvantaged by unfair discrimination may be taken.’
One of the aims of the Legal Practice…
LSSA Charity Golf Day – a game for a good cause
The Law Society of South Africa (LSSA) hosted its first charity golf day on 16 February 2024 in Pretoria. The purpose of the golf day was to raise funds for charity, as part of the mandate of the LSSA to empower candidate legal practitioners and the community. The LSSA, which is a voluntary association for…
The Competition Commission’s Cadet Training Programme: Cultivating talent and bridging gaps
Candidates attending the Competition Commission’s Cadet Training Programme.
By Selaelo Maraka and Candice Slump
The Competition Commission of South Africa (the Commission) is committed to nurturing talent and fostering inclusivity in the highly specialised field of competition law and economics. Central to this endeavour is its Cadet Training Programme, a biennial initiative designed to provide…
Magistrate Khoele says legal practitioners should have an interest in each other’s development
The Pretoria Attorneys Association (PAA) held a function for candidate legal practitioners in Pretoria on 22 February 2024, to welcome the legal practitioners starting their journey into the legal profession, as well as share with them some of the benefits of belonging to an association such as the PAA. During her welcoming address, the Chairperson…
De Rebus: The legal practitioner’s educational journal
The De Rebus journal has been in existence for the past 68 years in different formats. Since its first issue, the journal has evolved with the times in terms of the topics covered and the way in which it is published. What has remained of utmost importance throughout the years is its mandate to be…
Letters to the Editor – March 2024
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The Domestic Violence Amendment Act: Close but no cigar?
The changes brought…
BRICS Legal Forum welcomes the inclusion of new states as proposed by the BRICS Summit 2023
Pretoria Attorneys Association Conference on Consolidated Practice Directive 1 of 2024
Cyber breaches: Human element remains by far the biggest vulnerability
By Rob Rafferty
I was sitting in a client’s reception, paging through an October 2022 edition of De Rebus, when my eye caught a well written article ‘The need for cybercrime insurance’ by Mapula Oliphant (2022 (Oct) DR 3). It was interesting to read that the Legal Practitioners Indemnity Insurance Fund NPC (LPIIF)…