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Plain packaging vs branding rights: A legal battle over cigarette pack regulations

Sajidha Gamieldien, Nicole Haworth, and Aimee Du Plessis 1 day

Doctors complain about choice of equipment at Gauteng hospital as thousands await cancer scans

Doctors complain about choice of equipment at Gauteng hospital as thousands await cancer scans

Chris Bateman and Raymond Joseph 1 day

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Employers warned: Employees are not assets, rules Labour Court

Bradley Workman-Davies 1 day

Covid-19 SRD grant amendments open for public comment

Covid-19 SRD grant amendments open for public comment

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What every sectional-title property owner should know about dispute resolution

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How Miss Marple and Rachmaninoff highlight cross-jurisdictional copyright issues

Lodewyk Cilliers 2 days

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Are your algorithms secretly colluding? The hidden risks of digital price signalling

Nicholas De Decker 3 days

Wesley Neumann (right) with his legal representatives, advocate Rod Solomons (left) and advocate Vernon Seymour (centre), in the Labour Court in Cape Town on Friday. Neumann will not return to Heathfield High until the court rules on whether his reinstatement can proceed pending an appeal. Photo: Marecia Damons / GroundUp

Battle over former Heathfield principal’s return

Marecia Damons 16 Feb 2026

The Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled that damages for future medical expenses in state medical negligence cases must be paid as a lump sum and not through the provision of treatment at public hospitals. Photo: Ben Bezuidenhout via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

SCA rules medical negligence damages must be paid as lump sum

Tania Broughton 13 Feb 2026

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Discovery affidavits: Insurers need not apply, High Court rules

Mtho Maphumulo 13 Feb 2026

Cox Yeats recognised in Chambers & Partners 2026 rankings

Cox Yeats recognised in Chambers & Partners 2026 rankings

Cox Yeats 13 Feb 2026

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Dozens of communities downstream of the Katse Dam are owed compensation since 2013 by the Lesotho Highlands Water Project. Photo: Sechaba Mokhethi / GroundUp

Lesotho dam project misses deadline to pay multi-million compensation claim

Sechaba Mokhethi 11 Feb 2026

An employee inspects bottles of beer on a conveyor belt along a production line at the East African Breweries' microbrewery as the company released its half-year results in Ruaraka, Nairobi Kenya, 26 January 2024. Reuters/Monicah Mwangi/File Photo/File Photo

Kenyan court postpones case seeking to halt Diageo's $2.3bn sale of EABL

Duncan Miriri and Emma Rumney 9 Jan 2026

Beer bottles pass through a conveyor belt along a production line at the East African Breweries' microbrewery as the company released its half-year results in Ruaraka, Nairobi, Kenya, 26 January 2024. Reuters/Monicah Mwangi//File Photo

Kenyan beer firm asks court to block Diageo's $2.3bn EABL sale to Asahi

Duncan Miriri and Emma Rumney 8 Jan 2026

Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu speaks in Brasilia, Brazil, August 25, 2025. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo.

Nigeria to implement new tax laws from January despite calls for delay, Tinubu says

Camillus Eboh 31 Dec 2025

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