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Friday
13 February
The
correctional services department is considering
policy guidelines to enable government to enter into
PRISONER
TRANSFER AGREEMENTS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES
(News24 2004-02-13).
A
precedent-setting SMOKING
LAW PROSECUTION HAS BEEN SCRAPPED
; the case involved Cape Town's elite Kelvin Grove
club has been scrapped (News24 2004-02-13).
In
a landmark verdict for the horseracing and betting
industry, a Pretoria High Court judge has ruled that
BOOKMAKERS
MAY NOT TAKE BETS WHICH IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER ARE
LINKED TO TOTE DIVIDENDS AND RESULTS
(Business Day 2004-02-13).
The
Hefer Commission of Inquiry appointed by President
Thabo Mbeki into spy allegations against the
National Director of Public Prosecutions COST
A TOTAL OF R1.9M
(News24 2004-02-13).
South
African socialite Melleney Samsudin is trying to
keep the wolves from the door of her Johannesburg
mansion by DISPUTING
THE VALIDITY OF HER MARRIAGE IN SOUTH AFRICA
in the Pietermaritzburg High Court (Witness
2004-02-13).
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's official INFLATION
ROSE TO A RECORD 622.8% IN JANUARY,
the state Central Statistical Office said on
Thursday (Finance24 2004-02-12).
America
SAN
FRANCISCO OFFICIALS MARRIED SEVERAL GAY AND LESBIAN
COUPLES ON THURSDAY IN A "FIRST-IN-THE NATION
MOVE"
that directly defies a state law defining marriage
as a union between a man and a woman (IOL
2004-02-13). In Utah, a couple has SUED
AFTER COURT CLERKS DENIED THEIR REQUEST TO MARRY A
THIRD PERSON
(Findlaw 2004-02-12).
After
43 years the perfect plastic couple is breaking up :
KEN
AND BARBIE "FEEL IT'S TIME TO SPEND SOME
QUALITY TIME - APART . . . BUT WILL REMAIN
FRIENDS".
Barbie already has a new admirer : Blaine the
Australian boogie boarder (Findlaw 2004-02-12).
A COMPUTER
SYSTEM BEING DEVELOPED BY THE GOVERNMENT TO FLAG
POTENTIAL TERRORISTS FROM AMONG MILLIONS OF AIRLINE
PASSENGERS HAS RUN INTO "SIGNIFICANT
CHALLENGES"
that pose "major risks" to its deployment
and public acceptance, a new report warns (LA Times
2004-02-12). A privacy dispute with airlines
has DERAILED
THE GOVERNMENT'S EFFORT TO MODERNIZE THE SYSTEM
used to pick out suspicious passengers at airports,
and officials would not say when it would be running
(New York Times 2004-02-13).
And,
believe it or not, PRESIDENT
GEORGE BUSH'S US AIR FORCE DENTAL EXAMINATION RECORD
of 6 January 1973 is now available online - to
"buttress the President's contention that he
fulfilled his military service requirements during
the Vietnam War" (Findlaw
2004-02).
United
Kingdom
Maxine
Carr, jailed in December for conspiracy to pervent
the course of justice, WILL
NOT BE RELEASED EARLY
because doing so would attract "huge adverse
publicity", she was told yesterday (Telegraph
2004-02-13).
An
American paedophile who used the internet to groom a
12-year-old English girl for sex CANNOT
BE JAILED FOR LIFE IN BRITAIN
because he carried out the eventual assault in
France (Telegraph 2004-02-13).
A CARDIFF
UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR IS FACING DISMISSAL
after she agreed to represent her PhD protégé in
his race discrimination case against her employer
(THES 2004-02-13).
British scientists have sounded an URGENT
NEW WARNING ON SMOKING
(IOL 2004-02-13).
Thursday
12 February
In
a year dominated by the announcement of an exchange
control and tax amnesty, the tax authorities
continued with major revisions of and additions to
the Income Tax Act. Several important decisions
emerged from the courts, including one that
succeeded in putting a brake on one of the more
excessively draconian practices of SARS. READ
MORE . . .
(Mondaq 2004-01-27).
Wednesday
11 February
The
Pretoria High Court gave permission yesterday for AN
ADVOCATE TO BE APPOINTED ON BEHALF OF TWO CHILDREN
WHO WANT TO HAVE A SAY IN A FAMILY DISPUTE
(Pretoria News 2004-02-11).
In
a landmark decision with far-reaching constitutional
implications businessmen BRETT
AND ROGER KEBBLE AND HENNIE BUITENDAG HAVE BEEN
GRANTED LEAVE TO APPEAL
against an earlier High Court decision saying they
had to stand trial on charges relating to a hostile
takeover bid of one of their companies (M&G
2004-02-11).
The
Cape High Court on Tuesday reserved judgment in an
urgent application launched by Nicro to secure VOTING
RIGHTS FOR PRISON INMATES
who were jailed without the option of a fine (News24
2004-02-10).
The
EQUALITY
COURT HAS HANDED DOWN ITS FIRST JUDGMENT
in a case involving racial discrimination at a Cape
Town club (IOL 2004-02-11).
A
recent case before the Cape High Court allowed the
depth of the "watershed" PAOLA
VS JEEVA RULING TO BE TESTED,
and it has turned out to be of far less general
application than was at first thought and hoped
(News24 2004-02-06).
Attorneys
dealing with the Ethekwini Municipality will soon be
able to OBTAIN
THEIR RATES ASSESSMENTS OF PROPERTIES DIRECTLY
THROUGH THEIR CONVEYANCING SOFTWARE
- without having to deliver or collect any documents
from the rates department (Witness 2004-02-11).
Durban
municipality has collected a whopping R1-billion
from tardy ratepayers, but the bad news for
persistent defaulters is that unless they pay up -
fast - ABOUT
15 000 PROPERTIES WILL BE AUCTIONED OFF
later this year in order to recover outstanding
rates (IOL 2004-02-09).
Business
Day has published an article dealing with the IMPLICATIONS
OF THE COMMUNAL LAND RIGHTS BILL
(2004-02-11).
MORE
THAN 17 000 INMATES OF SOUTH AFRICA'S OVER-CROWDED
PRISONS QUALIFIED FOR COMMUNITY-SERVICE SENTENCES,
but the legal process to facilitate this would place
courts under more pressure, a Johannesburg academic
told parliament (News24 2004-02-10).
New
legislation will give the Minister of Education MORE
POWER TO ACT AGAINST PROVINCIAL EDUCATION
DEPARTMENTS THAT DO NOT PERFORM SUFFICIENTLY
(News24 2004-02-10).
Nambia
One of Namibia’s most memorable legal battles
continues today ; the case involves the ILLEGITIMATE
CHILD OF A WEALTHY BUSINESSMAN WHO FAILED TO LEAVE A
WILL
stipulating how his wealth should be distributed
(M&G 2004-02-11).
United
Kingdom
A
TOWN COUNCIL IS TO BE CHARGED WITH CORPORATE
MANSLAUGHTER
- in the first case of its kind - following the
deaths of seven people from Legionnaire's Disease.
More
than 150 people were infected and a 30-year-old air
conditioning plant at the council-run Forum 28 arts
complex was identified as the source (Telegraph
2004-02-11).
France
France's lower house of parliament on Tuesday
VOTED
OVERWHELMINGLY TO BAN STUDENTS FROM WEARING ISLAMIC
HEADSCARVES AND OTHER RELIGIOUS APPAREL IN PUBLIC
SCHOOLS
(News24 2004-02-10).
Tuesday
10 February
The
decision to INCREASE
THE WEEKLY SESSIONS OF CRIMINAL APPEAL COURTS
in the Rand High Court from 6 to 21 because of an
enormous build-up of appeal cases could see the
justice process collapsing because the Legal Aid
Board does not have the funds or staff to keep up
with so many sessions (News24 2004-02-09).
The
Competition Commission has fined the Hospital
Association of SA R4,5m for CONTRAVENING
THE COMPETITION ACT
in 2001-02, bringing to an end an exhaustive
two-year probe into price-fixing in medical tariffs
(Business Day 2004-02-10).
Parents
of five grade ten pupils in Pietermaritzburg have THREATENED
COURT ACTION IF THEIR CHILDREN ARE NOT PROMOTED TO
GRADE ELEVEN
after they failed last year "as a result of the
experiment implemented with regard to the
Outcomes-Based Education process" (Witness
2004-02-10).
Swiss
big business has endorsed South Africa's economic
policies but CAUTIONED
THAT LEGISLATION SUCH AS BLACK ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
(BEE) COULD BLUNT THE COUNTRY'S COMPETITIVE EDGE
(Finance24 2004-02-06).
See
STOCK
LOSSES AND COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY
for guidelines for a person chairing an enquiry
involving this problem (Labourwise 2004-02-02).
United
Kingdom
A fundamental tenet of British law could be changed
to make it EASIER
TO CONVICT ORGANISED CRIME BOSSES
(Telegraph 2004-02-10).
The
Human Tissue Bill, close to becoming law, is to
prevent organs being taken without relatives'
consent but leading scientists say IT
COULD BLIGHT LEGITIMATE RESEARCH PROJECTS
(Telegraph 2004-02-08).
Monday
9 February
South
Africa's THIRD
DEMOCRATIC GENERAL ELECTIONS WILL BE HELD ON APRIL
14,
President Thabo Mbeki announced in parliament today
(News24 2004-02-09).
The
Sunday Times takes a look at JOBURG
METRO'S BILLING BLUES
(2004-02-08).
The
Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs has been
asked to explain a statement that THE
GOVERNMENT IS CONSIDERING A SIX-MONTH EXTENSION FOR
LAND CLAIMS IN THE EASTERN CAPE
(Mail & Guardian 2004-02-06).
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