IF there’s just one legal story you remember this year, let it be this one: It’s the story of a taxpayer (who was not named in the court’s judgment) and what started off as a conventional property sale attracting capital …Share this: Share on X (Opens in new...
EVER heard a judge say, in so many words, that the law being applied in a case is an ass? Welcome to the Alice-in-Wonderland world of Compass v Van Tonder, in which Judge Anton Steenkamp says not only that the …Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X...
It’s six months since my last column for the Independent Group and I would like to thank everyone who wrote and called to wish me well and to say how much they had enjoyed my weekly pieces over many years …Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on...
A NEWLY-appointed Zimbabwe judge has laid it on the line for her judicial colleagues: she said it was high time they handed down tougher sentences, with penalties indicating that sex with girls under 18 is always illegal and has serious …Share this: Share on X...
A FRIEND told me a story the other day I hardly believed. Working in his father’s industrial workshop he noticed a man in a car parked on the verge outside. From early morning he photographed everyone arriving at the factory …Share this: Share on X (Opens in...
ONE minute Theuns Pelser was a respected member of staff at the University of the North-West, director of the graduate school of business and government leadership and a thesis supervisor in much demand. Next moment an email arrived in his …Share this: Share on...
