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, Issued by Juta and Company 13 Apr 2021
Nomlayo Mabhena is known for being the youngest-ever Black female attorney admitted as a conveyancer...
Charndré Emma Kippie, Issued by Topco Media 9 Mar 2021
Juta is pleased to inform you of the rollout of our new Jutastat Evolve legal research platform to subscribers...
Issued by Juta and Company 2 Mar 2021
LexisNexis South Africa's Mellony Ramalho outlines four ways this legal tech giant helps to ensure legal pros stay at the top of their game...
Issued by LexisNexis 22 Feb 2021
Any discussion about presumptions in law would be incomplete without mentioning the presumption of innocence...
John de Villiers, Issued by LexisNexis 26 Jan 2021
Conducting legal research can be tedious, monotonous and time-consuming, but performing timely and comprehensive legal research is critically important for lawyers...
John de Villiers, Issued by LexisNexis 25 Jan 2021
The ability to conduct legal research is essential for legal professionals. However, the most basic step of identifying the leading case governing the issues in question is complicated by the various online research offerings...
Issued by LexisNexis 12 Nov 2020
In the new world presented by Covid-19, harnessing all that legal technology has to offer has become even more important for streamlining legal research and ensuring sustainability and survival...
Issued by LexisNexis 9 Nov 2020
Long late-night hours poring through old legal texts in a stately library setting, with attractive albeit dishevelled colleagues: the storyline of most legal sitcoms. But the reality for legal professionals is not quite so glamorous...
Issued by LexisNexis 29 Sep 2020
As Vodacom's chief officer of Corporate Affairs, an executive director at Vodacom South Africa and chairperson of the Vodacom Foundation, Takalani Netshitenzhe, believes toxic masculinity is one of the biggest challenges in the work place for women...
Evan-Lee Courie 12 Aug 2020
South Africa is taking the necessary measures to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic and financial institutions are offering payment holidays. However, what exactly is a payment holiday?
Around 50 tech and legal professionals gathered at the LexisNexis head office in Durban on 29 August for the first-ever Elastic Durban Meetup...
Issued by LexisNexis 11 Sep 2019
Durban tech and legal professionals can look forward to the first-ever Elastic Durban Meetup to be hosted by open source search and analytics company, Elastic...
Issued by LexisNexis 27 Aug 2019
An exciting new series of meetups has been launched on how to practically explore the sheer number of opportunities which legal technology enablement and new design thinking can bring to the industry...
Issued by LexisNexis 28 May 2019
The DOL has developed a new system that will allow employees to report companies that fail to comply with the National Minimum Wage Act...
Jacques van Wyk 10 Apr 2019
Fourteen of the best young minds from the UKZN's Master of Laws (LLM) programme have put their qualifications to excellent use at LexisNexis South Africa...
Issued by LexisNexis 2 Apr 2019
Government has reiterated its commitment to clamp down on the growing practice of deliberately dodging labour laws, especially the National Minimum Wage (NMW) Act...
A donation of tech resources from LexisNexis South Africa is set to aid the Attorneys Development Fund (ADF) in its vision of empowering deserving law firms to become self-sustainable...
Issued by LexisNexis 4 Mar 2019
Six years ago, Kenya discovered commercially viable oil deposits in the Turkana region...
Melba K Wasunna 10 Oct 2018
Now new, enhanced functionality from LexisNexis enables subscribers to comprehensive online legal research tool, Lexis Library, to view not only current legislation, but also all previous amendments since 2014...
Issued by LexisNexis 25 Sep 2018
Small law firms require access to a comprehensive legal library and up-to-date legal resources, enabling practitioners to conduct research as required...
Issued by LexisNexis 12 Jun 2018
Many argue that a carbon tax effective from 1 January 2019 and as currently framed, is achievable, but not necessarily the best mechanism...
Justine Sweet, Issued by LexisNexis 19 Apr 2018
Lexis Library Time Select gives small to medium legal enterprises access to up-to-date and relevant legal content, increasing their billable hours exponentially...
Issued by LexisNexis 2 Mar 2018
The Constitution's guarantee of equality in section 9 is not merely concerned with 'formal' equality (equality at law), but endorses a notion of 'substantive' equality...
Martin van Staden 21 Dec 2017
NHI and Demarcation Regulations are violations of our constitutional rights to freedom of association and access to healthcare...
Martin van Staden 5 Oct 2017
The true cost of the NHI, and how government will fund it, are two details on which South Africans have no clarity...
Martin van Staden 14 Sep 2017
Each year, newly qualified advocates from previously disadvantaged backgrounds are selected for a lucrative startup sponsorship from LexisNexis SA as part of the company's Advocate Advancement Programme...
Issued by LexisNexis 1 Jun 2017
Freedom of choice flies out the window when so-called ‘bad' choices can summarily be overruled or interfered with by government...
Martin van Staden 30 May 2017
The Hate Speech Bill should cause South Africans sleepless nights, as it criminalises virtually all speech of any consequence...
Martin van Staden 8 May 2017
Mobile legal research with its ease of access, convenience and user-friendly formats, is gaining momentum in South Africa and looks set to significantly change the way legal professionals work in the future...
Issued by LexisNexis 3 Apr 2017
While King IV is a set of voluntary principles of good practices of corporate governance that holds no legal binding, its recommendations are held in high regard and are referenced by the courts in some cases...
Issued by LexisNexis 29 Mar 2017
Rapid changes in the regulatory environment as a result of growing pressure from civil society are leaving organisations struggling to keep up with compliance overload...
Issued by LexisNexis 9 Mar 2017
As complicated and time-consuming as legal research can be, there is no more effective way to strengthen an argument in court than with sound case and precedent referencing...
Issued by LexisNexis 10 Feb 2017
An increased appetite for online services, smarter use of technology, and the entrenchment of digital research, are just some of the continuing shifts among the attorneys' profession in South Africa...
Issued by LexisNexis 9 Nov 2016
As demands heighten, a new breed of legal professionals have come to recognise and appreciate the efficiency, simplicity and accuracy of online legal research...
Issued by LexisNexis 5 Oct 2016
There are four reasons that legal technology providers have been unable to sustainably market their services to attorneys...
Boris Dzhingarov, Issued by Monetary Library 20 Sep 2016
Inspired by Huffington Post's Sophia project, TEDxCapeTownWomen asked some previous speakers to share their thoughts on time lessons learnt from inter-generational sharing... (video)
African law students are changing the way we access data by leading efforts to disseminate Africa's mining legal frameworks through the AMLA project...
Eight historically disadvantaged Mthatha legal professionals have been recognised and rewarded with tools to grow their legal practices, while at the same time advancing transformation of the legal sector...
Issued by LexisNexis 1 Jun 2016
The Society of Law Teachers' of Southern Africa Conference 2015 will be hosted by Varsity College at its Durban North campus from 6 - 8 July...
According to a survey of more than 160 independent law firms, commissioned by content and technology solutions provider, LexisNexis South Africa, increased investments in technology, coupled with shifting research trends and the challenges of keeping up to date with frequently changing legislation, are just some of the aspects characterising the small law firm in South Africa.
Bridgett Majola has returned from the first course of the China-Africa Young Legal Professionals Exchange Programme in Beijing, held during September and October 2014.
The University of the Witwatersrand has approved the plan of the School of Law to discontinue the undergraduate Bachelor of Laws degree (LLB) and to introduce the LLB postgraduate programme.
The four-year under-graduate law degree aimed at transforming the legal profession is to be scrapped at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits).
The Protection of Personal Information Bill, B9D - 2009, ('POPI') will place significant obligations on most individuals and juristic entities, including employers.
Jacques van Wyk 2 Oct 2013
More than three million pages of documents crucial to the arms deal inquiry are lying unread at the Hawks' headquarters in Pretoria, according to a report.