How to strategically plan your leave days in 2019

Extending your sectional title unit? What you need to know before laying the first brick

Have you made any additions to your home and had your building plans approved by the relevant municipality, but after attempting to sell your property found that the purchaser’s bank requires you to provide a registered sectional plan of the extension of your section before the transaction can proceed?

If you forgot, then it was not that important: Missing annexures and tacit terms in contracts

It is no surprise that in the fast-paced commercial world parties may miss an annexure or omit a term when concluding and executing contracts. This raises the question of how a court will interpret a contract where a party suddenly alleges that the missing annexure renders it uncertain and void, or that the parties intended for a tacit term to be imputed into it? These questions were answered in the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) judgment of G Phadziri & Sons Proprietary Limited v Do Light Transport Proprietary Limited and Another 20 February 2023 (765/2021).

CDH Women Empowerment podcasts

10 April 2023 marked 100 years since the Woman Legal Practitioners Act 7 of 1923 was promulgated. The Act contained a single section, which reads: “ Women shall be entitled to be admitted to practice and to be enrolled as advocates, attorneys, notaries public or conveyancers in any province of the Union, subject to the same terms and conditions as apply to men… ”. As we commemorate 100 years of women in law, we bring you insightful episodes of the CDH Women Empowerment podcast series. This is where several members of our firm discuss the importance of women empowerment in the legal profession.      

CCMA’s Amended Rules and Forms

The CCMA recently published its amended rules and forms for its proceedings.

The fight continues: Agrizzi gets to keep his money to pay for his medical bills

In a previous Tax Alert , we considered the judgment delivered by Judge Basson in Commissioner for the South African Revenue Services v Angelo Agrizzi and Another (45008/2021) ZAGPPHC 604 in relation to the repatriation application that was brought by the South African Revenue Service (SARS). In terms of the application, SARS was seeking an order to compel Angelo Agrizzi to repatriate his assets located in Italy to satisfy his outstanding tax debt.

Developments and changes in the Kenyan tax landscape: Tax outlook for 2023