Denzil Mhlongo

Experience

Business rescues, liquidations, and sequestrations.
Public law, administrative law, and constitutional law litigation.
Commercial litigation, evictions, and civil litigation.

Credentials

Education

Bachelor of Laws – 2023 (University of Cape Town)
Diplôme d'Etudes en Langue Française A1 – 2019

LANGUAGES

English
French

News

Constitutional rights versus statutory timelines – SCA grants condonation in Rossouw v Blignaut & Wessels

The case of Rossouw v Blignaut & Wessels and Another ZASCA 146 dealt with important issues around applications for condonation, special leave of appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal...

The consequences of selective payments to creditors by insolvents

In sequestration proceedings, achieving equity for the body of creditors must prevail over the interests of a select few. This was the central point in Astra Constantine Inc v Jones...

Reflecting on Freedom Day: Are our children free?

South Africa celebrates Freedom Day on 27 April each year, honouring the date of our first democratic elections in 1994. However, more than 30 years later, there is no doubt that freedom...

Reflecting on Human Rights Day and Freedom Day: The Cases of Omotoso and Cwecwe

We celebrate Human Rights Day on 21 March to commemorate the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 and to signify the nation’s unanimous commitment to protecting and upholding the rights contained...

Provisional sentence proceedings: A special procedure that can be used to immediately enforce a foreign judgment

International contracts are contracts concluded between two parties situated in different countries. A jurisdictional clause in an international contract typically states which country’s...

Agreed demotion and duress

The judgment of the Labour Court in Komatsu Mining Corporation Group v Metal and Engineering Bargaining Council and Others (JR2725/21) ZALCJHB 361 deals with two core principles.

Employment Law

Pre-arbitration minute or not?

The recent judgment of the Labour Appeal Court (LAC) in Mbeje and Others v Department of Health: KwaZulu-Natal and Others (DA33/2022) ZALAC highlighted the role, and binding nature...

Ignore sequestration proceedings at your peril

Parties who agree to be personally liable for a debt, for example by way of signing a suretyship or a guarantee, should take heed of the potentially dire consequences for them if they...

Tax & Exchange Control

What’s in a name? The status of Tax Courts as courts of law

The South African legal system is host to a number of quasi-judicial decision-making bodies which, while having the power to make decisions which are authoritative and may be binding...

The definitive position on the courts’ ability to override existing orders

” If the errors and their consequences were not so serious, this appeal could be said to arise from a comedy of errors .” This was the opening sentence in a judgment by the Supreme...

The extent of business rescue practitioners’ powers to suspend a company’s contractual obligations

Chapter 6 of the Companies Act 71 of 2008 (Companies Act) confers various powers on business rescue practitioners (BRPs) once they have assumed their responsibilities to restructure...

Business rescue with an ulterior purpose

A financially distressed company facing a liquidation application may be tempted to try and avoid or delay the inevitable by launching a business rescue application in order to suspend...

All articles by Denzil

Constitutional rights versus statutory timelines – SCA grants condonation in Rossouw v Blignaut & Wessels

The case of Rossouw v Blignaut & Wessels and Another ZASCA 146 dealt with important issues around applications for condonation, special leave of appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal...

The consequences of selective payments to creditors by insolvents

In sequestration proceedings, achieving equity for the body of creditors must prevail over the interests of a select few. This was the central point in Astra Constantine Inc v Jones...

Reflecting on Human Rights Day and Freedom Day: The Cases of Omotoso and Cwecwe

We celebrate Human Rights Day on 21 March to commemorate the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 and to signify the nation’s unanimous commitment to protecting and upholding the rights contained...

Provisional sentence proceedings: A special procedure that can be used to immediately enforce a foreign judgment

International contracts are contracts concluded between two parties situated in different countries. A jurisdictional clause in an international contract typically states which country’s...

Agreed demotion and duress

The judgment of the Labour Court in Komatsu Mining Corporation Group v Metal and Engineering Bargaining Council and Others (JR2725/21) ZALCJHB 361 deals with two core principles.

Employment Law

Pre-arbitration minute or not?

The recent judgment of the Labour Appeal Court (LAC) in Mbeje and Others v Department of Health: KwaZulu-Natal and Others (DA33/2022) ZALAC highlighted the role, and binding nature...

Ignore sequestration proceedings at your peril

Parties who agree to be personally liable for a debt, for example by way of signing a suretyship or a guarantee, should take heed of the potentially dire consequences for them if they...

Tax & Exchange Control

What’s in a name? The status of Tax Courts as courts of law

The South African legal system is host to a number of quasi-judicial decision-making bodies which, while having the power to make decisions which are authoritative and may be binding...

The definitive position on the courts’ ability to override existing orders

” If the errors and their consequences were not so serious, this appeal could be said to arise from a comedy of errors .” This was the opening sentence in a judgment by the Supreme...

The extent of business rescue practitioners’ powers to suspend a company’s contractual obligations

Chapter 6 of the Companies Act 71 of 2008 (Companies Act) confers various powers on business rescue practitioners (BRPs) once they have assumed their responsibilities to restructure...

Business rescue with an ulterior purpose

A financially distressed company facing a liquidation application may be tempted to try and avoid or delay the inevitable by launching a business rescue application in order to suspend...

All articles by Denzil