by VDT Attorneys | Jun 7, 2018 | Court, Law, Litigation
Firstly, your friend is right. Our courts do create law, but not necessarily in the way that you understand our Government to do so through the passing of legislation. Our courts rather do so through the interpretation of our legislation and applying and developing...
by VDT Attorneys | May 15, 2018 | Contract, Dispute resolution, Litigation
In most cases, a contract will a have a list of definitions or an interpretation clause which will spell out exactly how a “day”, “week” or “month” in the contract must be interpreted and define the way in which the time period must be calculated in order to determine...
by VDT Attorneys | Apr 6, 2018 | Arrest, Criminal, Dispute resolution, Litigation
The South African Police may offer an arrested person the option of paying an admission of guilt fine, but only if the person has been arrested for a less serious offence, and so doing lighten the load of congested court rolls. This fine is paid before the accused...
by VDT Attorneys | Apr 6, 2018 | Litigation, Personal
It is a general principle in our law that no person may act on behalf of another, unless he has the necessary authority to do so. Such authorisation is commonly referred to as a Power of Attorney (“POA”). A POA is a formal document in terms of which the principal...
by VDT Attorneys | Mar 8, 2018 | Child, Family, Litigation
We all know that corporal punishment in any form in our schools has been outlawed for a long time. But what is the situation at home. Here it is important to understand that it has always been a crime of assault to hit a child, even your own child. In this sense,...
by VDT Attorneys | Feb 7, 2018 | Appeal, Dispute resolution, Employment, Labour, Litigation, Unfair Labour Practice
To clarify the rule of practice that ‘cost orders follow the result’, or plainly put, that the unsuccessful party must pay the costs of litigation, our Constitutional Court recently reviewed this rule of practice in the context of labour matters heard in the Labour...
