Dog owners can face strict liability when their animals attack someone, meaning the injured person does not necessarily have to prove that the owner was negligent. But that doesn’t make owners automatically liable for every bite. Here, the claimant put his head over his neighbour’s boundary wall after being asked more than once to leave...Read More

A 13th cheque is not automatically guaranteed. But where it forms part of your employment contract, your employer cannot simply withdraw it or replace it with a performance-based bonus without your agreement. The Labour Court ordered an employer that had done so to pay 45 employees a 13th cheque for every year it had gone...Read More

Lying to get a job can cost far more than the job itself. A former V&A Waterfront chief information officer was ordered to pay nearly R2.9 million in damages after the Labour Court found that she had misled the company into employing her and into paying for two consultants who had worked for her private...Read More

Summer’s the perfect season to go house-hunting, with the sun shining, new properties on the market, and sales surging. Let’s talk about what you should do when you’ve found your dream home and the agent asks you to sign an offer to purchase. We’ll lead you through the process and share some guidelines to help...Read More