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A litigant’s right to a fair trial and a lost trial record

25 March 2024,  Jonathan Le Riche

If a court record is lost, does this still constitute a right to a fair trial?

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Can I institute legal action on behalf of my body corporate?

07 June 2019,  Corlia van Zyl

I live in a sectional title that used to have beautiful common property areas. The last year or two though,... owners have been causing damage to these garden areas and walkways and the body corporate is doing nothing to stop it. Can I take legal action against the owners that are causing the damage or can only the body corporate do something?

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Japie Kruger on MedFM: illegal business next door

02 May 2019,  Japie Kruger

It's no fun and games when a business opens its doors illegally in a residential area. Yet there is legal... recourse you can take! Japie Kruger discusses on MedFM 101.4 FM.

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Adriaan van Rensburg on MedFM: decriminilisation of marijuana

14 November 2018

This month Adriaan van Rensburg, your personal criminal law advisor, spoke on MedFM 104.1 about the decriminilisation of marijuana use... and how it actually affects our daily lives.

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Family Law specialist Ilze Strydom featured in Get It magazine

31 July 2018

In honour of Women's Month, director Ilze Strydom, the woman heading up our specialist Family Law department, is featured in... the August issue of Get It Bloemfontein magazine.

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What print or font is too small for a contract?

07 June 2018

I recently bought a second-hand car from a local car dealership. Not long afterwards the car started giving me trouble.... When I took it back to the dealership, they said it was not their responsibility as the contract I had signed transferred all responsibility to me. They showed me the contract, but most of it was printed so small that I couldn’t even read it let alone understand it. Surely I should at least be able to read a contract to be bound by it?

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HUMAN RIGHTS DAY: The rights of arrested, detained and accused persons

20 March 2018

Section 35 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa provides protection to the rights of arrested, detained and... accused persons. This section deals with a person’s rights from the moment of the arrest and with the fairness of the criminal trial. 

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HUMAN RIGHTS DAY: The right to education, the right to language and culture and the right to cultural, religious and linguistic communities

20 March 2018,  Minette Bowen

Sections 29, 30 and 31 of the 1996 Constitution of the Republic of South Africa protects each citizen’s right to... education, language and culture, and cultural, religious and linguistic communities respectively. All three of these rights have the purpose of serving the minority of society.

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HUMAN RIGHTS DAY: Your right to freedom of trade, occupation and profession

20 March 2018

Section 22 of the Constitution plays a significant role in the transformation of our country. Section 22, which seeks to... protect the economic activities of South Africans and implies the right to access to work, states that “Every citizen has the right to choose their trade, occupation or profession freely. The practice of a trade, occupation or profession may be regulated by law”. 

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HUMAN RIGHTS DAY: Your right to freedom of association

20 March 2018

The right to freedom of association is a broad right and is correlative in that it reinforces other rights enshrined... within the Bill of Rights.

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HUMAN RIGHTS DAY: Your right to freedom of expression

20 March 2018

In terms of Section 16 of the Constitution everyone has the right to freedom of expression. 

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HUMAN RIGHTS DAY: Your right to freedom of religion, belief and opinion

19 March 2018,  Eldon Ward

Section 15(1) of the Bill of Rights provide us with an important and fundamental right and that is: ‘the right... to freedom of conscience, religion, thought, belief and opinion’. But what does this right really mean?

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