With PoPIA soon coming into effect, are employees who use their personal devices for work purposes - and their employers - violating its rules? Potentially yes...
As we well know, the volume of data being generated is growing rapidly. eDiscovery involves almost all information capable of being stored electronically, across multiple formats...
John de Villiers, LexisNexis 20 Apr 2021
Thomson Reuters and Juta & Co are proud to announce a partnership in Africa, that will see legal professionals being offered market-leading research technology...
Jackie Rhodes & Kamal Patel, Juta and Company 13 Apr 2021
Just under one-third of organisations indicated they are well prepared for PoPIA. Here are six things that can be done to improve compliance readiness...
Anna Collard 12 Apr 2021
The Protection of Personal Information Act (PoPIA) was proclaimed by the president in July 2020 and from 1 July 2021, any person or organisation that keeps any type of records relating to the personal information of anyone, including companies as a juristic person, is required to comply or face very heavy fines...
Freelancers Writing Services 8 Apr 2021
The changing landscape of legal discovery within an increasingly electronic world will be the focus of a virtual event on Tuesday, 30 March 2021...
LexisNexis 24 Mar 2021
A Guide to eDiscovery in South Africa has been published by LexisNexis South Africa...
LexisNexis 3 Mar 2021
South Africa's Constitutional Court declares certain provisions of the Regulation of Interception of Communications Act, unconstitutional...
Rui Lopes and Kirsty Gibson 5 Feb 2021
South Africa's Information Regulator met Facebook South Africa this week to discuss its revised WhatsApp privacy policy...
In the midst of the planetary emergency of climate change, Covid-19 is testing modern civilisation's preparedness for shocks, across the spheres of finance, economics and technology; global, national and regional governance; global and population health; social cohesion and food security. This is according to Baker McKenzie's new report, Unprecedented: Converging Crises...
Wildu du Plessis 6 Jan 2021
We've compiled our annual #BestofBiz 2020 lists across all our industries featuring our most popular articles, most-read contributors and brand press offices with the most views. Discover the most read content on Bizcommunity's Legal site over the past year below...
Many organisations believe that POPI compliance will not affect them. This is a short-sighted attitude that could see them falling foul of the law...
Johan Scheepers 7 Dec 2020
Businesses that have taken steps to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation passed by the EU will also have to be compliant with South Africa's Protection of Personal Information Act by July 2021. Compliance with one does not ensure compliance with the other...
Karl Blom and Ekene Nkado 30 Nov 2020
On 20 November 2020, the FSCA issued a draft Declaration of crypto assets as a financial product (draft Declaration) under the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act, 2002 (FAIS Act)...
Desiree Reddy 24 Nov 2020
