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Cairo
metro sparks gender debate
In the Egyptian capital, Cairo, the metro is facing a
possible lawsuit for gender discrimination because of its
women-only carriages. A Cairo-based lawyer, Atef Khedr,
has threatened to take the metro authorities to court if it
does not provide men-only carriages as well, within 60 days |
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Law
Society to review its rules on advertising
The rules regulating the advertising and marketing of SA
lawyers' services to the public have proved to be cumbersome
and are to be reviewed shortly by the Law Society |
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Accident
fund will not exclude whites
The Road Accident Fund's planned affirmative procurement
policy would not exclude white service providers and would
therefore not be vulnerable to a Constitutional Court
challenge, the fund's chairman, Kessie Naidu said. He
said an interim policy had been instituted to address staff
resistance to transformation |
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Beach
drives could soon be outlawed in SA
The days of fun drives on the beach with 4x4s are
numbered. This comes after Environmental Affairs and
Tourism Minister Mohammed Valli Moosa published draft
regulations last week which, if enacted, would ban private
vehicles on SA's beaches |
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False'
empowerment blows up in high court
Government's war on "fronting" where white
businesses recruit largely passive black partners to win state
contracts has been boosted by a fight between technology
company I-Fusion and a small black subsidiary, Tswelopele,
which has spilled over into court |
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Business
laws before Parliament
Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry and
the Select Committee on Economic Affairs began processing
three pieces of legislation on Wednesday which seek to tighten
up - and make more efficient - the regulatory environment for
businesses |
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Stunning'
ruling on control of magistrates
The judgment by a Pretoria High Court judge that magistrates
are the "personal fiefdom" of justice minister
Penuell Maduna has stunned the legal profession |
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High
court ruling on minister welcomed
The Judicial Independence Committee has welcomed a high court
decision that Justice Minister Penuell Maduna's authority over
magistrates and regional magistrates is unconstitutional |
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Rolling
dice on the Web
Online gambling is a lucrative multimillion-dollar
industry worldwide that's expected to grow to $10 billion in
three years, according to Datamonitor PLC, a market researcher
in London. Hundreds of Web sites, mostly located outside
the United States, currently lure surfers to virtual slot
machines, craps and other Las Vegas-style games |
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Lawyer
has to pay out over R1,4m
The high court here has given Queenstown lawyer and former
chairman of the Eastern Cape Gambling and Betting Board Vuyo
Poswa five days to pay out over R1,4 million in Road Accident
Fund (RAF) money to a client |
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Door's
in sight after six years
The Immigration Bill, six years in the legislative pipeline,
was tabled in the legislature this week, placing SA on the
final lap to a modern, post-apartheid immigration law aimed at
smoothing the import of skills to meet the country's needs |
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They
huff and they puff restaurant profits down
Antismoking legislation is
choking the hospitality business : nearly 90% of hotels,
restaurants, coffee shops and pubs say the antismoking laws
are damaging revenues |
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Business
fears legal pact may drive up liabilities
Hague Conference deal sought on global application of
judgments |
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France
arms itself with legal weapons to fight sects
France has become the first country in the world to introduce
specific legislation aimed at controlling the activities of
cults. The objective is to combat the 175-odd movements of a
quasi-religious nature considered a danger to society |
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Debate
raging over N.J. gambling law
A debate is raging over a new state law letting compulsive
gamblers ban themselves from casinos, with officials
discussing how to enforce the law without neglecting privacy
concerns |
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Fight
develops over oil drilling
A coalition of American Indian tribes and environmental groups
said they will try to overturn a federal permit allowing oil
drilling in a pristine Montana valley sacred to American
Indians |
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Officials
to offer jail on Internet
For sale: one jail, 115 years old, sleeps 147.
Daviess County officials have agreed to auction a jail over
the Internet, although fiscal court members haven't settled on
an asking price. Several groups interested in
preservation are seeking a $5,000 federal grant to research
possible uses for the building. The jail was the site of two
hangings in 1905, and it lists notorious Chicago gangster
George ``Bugs'' Moran as a former inmate |
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Road-rage
dog allegedly bit man
A man grabbed a woman's dog from her car after a
fender-bender only because the dog bit him, an attorney said,
denying the driver killed the dog in an act of road rage |
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Ill.
jury deadlocks in midwife case
Jurors considering the case of a midwife charged with
involuntary manslaughter in a newborn's death agreed the woman
was rash but could not agree she was a killer |
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Online (IOL) |
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Season
of the witch has come
Marriages performed by witches as well as Mormon weddings
should be approved by law, the South African Law Commission
recommended |
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and Guardian |
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New
law angers property owners
Previously owners were liable only for rates payments and
tenants for water and electricity. "I think it puts
a huge burden on property owners. I can't see that the
property sector is going to accept this violation of their
property rights," says attorney Richard Spoor |
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Asbestos
costs may drive USG to bankruptcy
The USG Corporation
, a maker of wallboard, said yesterday that it might file for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as the cost of legal
settlements with victims of asbestos-related diseases rises |
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Justices
reverse death sentence of retarded man
The Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of a
retarded Texas man who in 20 years on the state's death row
has become a symbol of a growing national debate over
executing the mentally retarded |
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Calls
for slavery restitution getting louder
The idea of compensating African-Americans for the
sins of two-and-a-half centuries of slavery has hovered in the
background, far from reality. But as a social and legal
movement, the call for reparations has taken on substantial
force this year |
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When
truth is 'treason'
On 13 June 1971, 30 years ago, The New York Times
began publishing a series on the secret official history of
the Vietnam War that became known as the Pentagon
Papers. An extraordinary legal struggle followed.
It was judges who saved this country from the repressive
spirit that prevails in so many others. The Pentagon Papers
case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict |
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Small
law firms find way to compete with giants
Alliances among law firms are one way that smaller
firms are trying to compete with firms with offices all over
the country, not to mention elsewhere in the world |
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Customer
service by e-mail
"In situations where something's gone wrong, there are
ways to get it taken care of on the Web sites — usually
through e-mail forms — but they're typically buried,"
said an analyst with a company that analyzes technology
changes for business clients. The beauty of complaining
through e-mail is that you can state your case clearly,
without having to contend with five-minute spans on hold and
the misery of repeating the same story to a succession of
employees Meanwhile, a growing number of consumers are
taking their complaints to online ombudsmen, like ... |
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Paid
placement is catching on in web searches
In 1998 GoTo.com was introduced
as a search engine with a difference : Web sites would pay to
be included in the search results after a user entered key
words. The idea was widely ridiculed but three years
later GoTo is thriving — not as a search service itself, but
as a provider of search results to other sites |
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Broadway's
electric conductors
Slowly but surely, more and more productions are
finding ways to train a hotter spotlight on the conductor,
reminding audiences of an aspect of musical theater that is
sometimes taken for granted : the contribution of live
musicians
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Memoir
of an offbeat clan strikes a chord
When Dorothy Gallagher was writing "How I Came Into My
Inheritance and Other True Stories," she expected that
this memoir of her family — politically radical Jewish
immigrants to the United States from Ukraine — would have
limited appeal. To her surprise, it has struck a common
chord in people from vastly different backgrounds |
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Matisse
: from the secular to the divine
Whether the work is paper cutouts, androgynous dancers or
brightly colored portraits and windowscapes, Matisse's genius
often speaks through deceptive simplicity |
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Hacking
threat rises with layoffs
As layoffs become more common at technology companies, an
increasing number of disgruntled or fired employees are
hacking their companies in revenge |
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Maduna's
authority over courts 'unconstitutional'
In a decision which could have far-reaching
consequences for the administration of justice, Judge Brian
Southwood ruled in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday that
Justice Minister Penuell Maduna's authority over Magistrates'
and Regional courts was unconstitutional |
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Maduna
vows to remedy 'unconstitutional laws'
The department of justice would act swiftly to remedy any
legislation governing the courts that might be identified as
unconstitutional, Justice Minister Penuell Maduna told the
National Assembly |
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CCMA
holds up under pressure
The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration
(CCMA) heard 103 078 cases of labour dispute during the
past year, but more than 30% of them were cases which did not
fall within the scope of the Commission's judgment and should
never have landed there |
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State
must protect suspects
The State had a duty to protect all citizens - including
fleeing crime suspects - the Supreme Court of Appeal held in
awarding damages to a young man rendered paraplegic after
being shot by the police in 1995 |
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Summons
for Die Burger editor in Staggie case
The editor of Die Burger and a photographer were summonsed on
Tuesday to provide the Cape High Court with all photographic
material relating to the lynching of Hard Livings gang boss
Rashaad Staggie |
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'New
Aids law not needed'
New legislation to cover the sexual behaviour of people
who are HIV-positive or suffering from Aids is not necessary,
says the South African Law Commission |
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Asbestos
claims cut off on June 15
The cut-off date for registration by Northern Cape
claimants in the asbestos court case is June 15, provincial
MEC for agriculture, land reform, environment and conservation
Dawid Rooi said |
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Ranch
worker wins assault case
The Johannesburg High Court ruled last year's assault, arrest
and prosecution conducted against an employee of The Ranch was
unlawful. Handyman Matthew Palmer sued the Minister of
Safety and Security for R800 000 in damages caused by police,
who were raiding the high-class brothel in February last year |
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Employers
call Internet filtering 'absolute necessity'
More than 75 percent of U.S. employers say that they
need to use Internet filtering and monitoring technology to
"combat" personal use of the Internet by workers
during business hours, a new survey finds |
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No
Internet filtering is sex harassment for librarians
Reaction is mixed on a preliminary finding by the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that a group of
Minneapolis librarians was exposed to a sexually hostile work
environment because of pornography downloaded on library
computers |
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Banks
unprepared to meet privacy law deadline
A majority of banks and financial services companies
will not be in compliance with privacy protections in a new
law that will go into effect on July 1, 2001, a study has
found
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15
billion text messages a month - and counting
Five years ago, text messaging on mobile phones was in its
infancy, and digital cellular users rarely used the
technology. But since then, it has become a network buster |
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Search
engine war brewing
Yahoo remains the most-used search engine by US surfers,
according to new figures, but more and more Internet users are
going to MSN to conduct searches. Worldwide, the
search engine race shows Yahoo, Google and MSN in the first
three positions. "This could be shaping up as
another Microsoft market share war," StatMarket vice
president Geoff Johnson said. |
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Bosses
would have to notify workers before monitoring e-mail
Bosses would have to notify their workers before monitoring
the employees' at-work e-mail, under a bill approved Monday by
the state Senate |
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SA
officials, eager to help fight international terrorism, handed
over a suspect to the US authorities with complete disregard
for the law
In its decision, the Constitutional Court had strong words for
the illegal and unconstitutional way in which SA officials had
acted in the matter, and reminded all concerned that a
government was supposed to set an example by observing the
law, instead of becoming a lawbreaker itself |
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New
guidelines for police on when to shoot
Police, uncertain about when they may fire at fleeing
suspects, have been given new guidelines by the Appeal Court
in Bloemfontein. The court said that before police
officers may shoot, they must have reason to believe that the
suspect is armed and presents a serious threat to the police
or the public |
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Moseneke
tipped for top job on the Bench
The decision by lawyer-turned-businessman Dikgang
Moseneke to quit all his corporate interests for a position as
an acting judge is fuelling speculation that he may be headed
for South Africa's most powerful judicial post |
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Miss
World Virus finds few takers
Internet vandals have created an email-borne virus which
attempts to trick users into spreading it by promising
pictures of Miss World candidates. The bug is yet
another mass mailing worm, which uses exactly the same tricks
as the Anna Kournikova virus, Hompage bug (et all) to
spread. It contains a highly damaging payload, which
among other things attempts to format a user's hard disk drive
and overwrite essential Windows files (including system.dat).
However early indications are that it is not spreading -
giving rise to the hope users have finally learned their
lesson about suspicious email attachments |
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Sky-high
web services taxi for take-off
International air travelers on a few select airlines will be
able to surf the Web at 35,000 feet from next year, but
questions remain over how eager passengers and carriers will
be to pay for sky-high e-mail |
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