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Once a South African employee, always a South African employee
[Johan Botes] Does a South African citizen employed by a South African business in a foreign jurisdiction have a claim for unfair dismissal under the South African Labour Relations Act, 66 of 1995 (LRA)...? read


Commercial Law
Validity of electronic contracts

Nastascha van Vuuren

The United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts (New York, 2007) establishes the general principle that communications are not to be denied legal validity solely because they were made in electronic form... read
Higher Education
Higher education bill enables institutional autonomy discussions
President Jacob Zuma says the proposed Higher Education Amendment Bill will make it possible for discussions around institutional autonomy to take place... read
Labour Law
Law agrees, 'no man can serve two masters'

Talita Laubscher and Nadine Mather

In the recent matter between Assign Services v the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (the CCMA) & Others, handed down on 8 September 2015, the Labour Court, considered, inter alia, the interpretation of the deeming provision contained in section 198A of the Labour Relations Act... read
Law Practice
Visa application service provider VFS Global faces High Court challenge
The Department of Home Affairs and its contracted visa application service provider, VFS Global, face a Cape High Court case to challenge the legitimacy of the appointment of VFS... read
eDiscovery cuts discovery process in litigation
Technology, in the form of eDiscovery, is quickly cutting at the root of the inevitable delays and potential errors made during the discovery process during litigation... read
Business
[Relentlessly Relevant] 6. Your brain needs sticky notes

Douglas Kruger

Innovation, and the art of capturing ideas on the fly... read
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