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In a decision handed down by the Eastern Cape Division of the High Court in Blue Crane Route Municipality v Municipal Workers Retirement Fund and Another, the Court affirmed that the in duplum rule applies equally to statutory interest owed under the Pension Funds Act ("PFA").

The purpose of this note is to briefly give an overview of the background to the Draft Bill and to highlight some key takeaways for consideration.

On 1 April 2020, the SCA granted an appeal against an order of Acting Justice Kose in the Cape Town High Court in favour of The Agricultural Research Council (Bergh and Others v The Agricultural Research Council).

Two recent high-profile cases involving popular songs have placed the spotlight on copyright issues.

In the matter of Centre for Child Law & Others v Media24 Limited & Others CCT 261/18, the Constitutional Court considered an application by the Centre for Child Law

Problems inevitably crop up from time to time in any workplace. The problems can become disputes which vary from serious acts of misconduct through to performance failures...

The Eastern Cape Division of the High Court recently delivered a judgment in Bergsig Special School v MEC: Education on the interface between unjust enrichment claims...

In a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court of Appeal (“SCA”) in the case of Ibex RSA Holdco Ltd and Another v Tiso Blackstar Group (Pty) Ltd and Others 2025 (2) SA 408 (SCA) (“Ibex”)...

In Sithole and Another v Media24 (Pty) Ltd and Others, the applicants Lemane Bridgman Sithole and Michael Matshidiso Maile approached the Johannesburg High Court urgently to interdict the respondents...

In Buthelezi v Ndaba 575/2012 [2013] ZASCA 72, the Supreme Court of Appeal finally refused to draw an inference of negligence in a medical negligence case.

A recent judgement in Arcus v Arcus (1 of 2021) [2022] ZASCA 9 has become the talk of the town precisely because it involved a payment...

The High Court of South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal Local Division, Durban, recently delivered judgment in a dispute concerning the supply of liquid petroleum gas (LPG).

The gap between the Court Aquo's decision v the SCA decision on Kenneth Paul Els V The Memorable Order of Tin Hats v Kenneth Paul Els (M.O.T.H.) (241/2017) (2019) ZAGPJHC 77 (7 March 2019).

In the case of Optivest Health Services (Pty) Ltd v The Council for Medical Schemes and Others, the Supreme Court of Appeal ("the SCA") found that the Medical Schemes Act 131 of 1998...

We have been aware of the period we refer to as prescription in law, where there is time barring on the ability to claim a debt.

The Supreme Court of Appeal recently examined whether a municipality's breach of legislation, without demonstrable harm to the applicants, could justify granting a final interdict. The case centered on farming operations affected by alleged unlawful structures and land use on neighboring municipal property, raising critical questions about the evidentiary requirements for obtaining prohibitory relief.

Often disputes end in a settlement as legal practitioners we encourage that.