Professional Update
A
monthly newsletter for KZN Attorneys from the Kwazulu-Natal Law Society

1 July 2009

This professional service draws attention to current and important items of news
 and members are directed to the hosts' websites

InfoUpdate 12 of 2009
Recent Judgments

Electronic copies of this information may be obtained from our librarians at help@lawlibrary.co.za or click on the underlined hyperlink where relevant

KwaZulu-Natal High Court : Pietermaritzburg (previously Natal Provincial Division) http://www.saflii.org.za/za/cases/ZAKZPHC/ ; Court rolls via http://www.lawlibrary.co.za/notice/highcourts/index.htm and http://www.saflii.org/blog/?page_id=190

Appeal on car crash ruling - 30 June
The KwaZulu-Natal department of transport is to appeal against a Pietermaritzburg high court ruling that it must pay 70 percent of R30million damages to an Australian injured on the Sani Pass road in March 2005. This follows an order by Judge Sharmaine Balton lasts week that MEC Bheki Cele and his department must pay electrician Murray Eastman, who was left a paraplegic by an accident. - Sowetan website

Shembe house torched : Nazareth faction leader fears for his life after attack - 30 June
Tensions over the leadership of the Nazareth Baptist Church took a new twist when a house belonging to Nkosi Sizwe Mudliwamafa Shembe of the Ginyezinye faction was gutted by a fire on Friday. Ginyezinye faction spokesperson Banga Thusi said women who were sleeping in the house had earlier conducted a prayer service in the house after they were barred from worshipping at the Shembe Ekuphakameni headquarters under the leadership of Prophet Vukile Shembe. - Sowetan website

See also :
Sizwe is now Shembe leader
- 18 June
Sowetan website
[InfoUpdate 12 of 2009]

'Body was dumped and burnt' - 26 June
A Pietermaritzburg couple charged with the murder of a man who fathered the wife's child, are to stand trial in the Pietermaritzburg High Court from October 12. The pair, Amith Sewkarran, 26, and Khalisha Rajcoomar, 23, allegedly made Rajcoomar's former lover Sundesh Poorun drunk, strangled him, took his body to a dump site and burned it in February. They remain in custody. - IOL website

Woman accused of planning murder - 1 July
A Durban woman who allegedly had her daughter-in-law killed in Pietermaritzburg, for fear that she would divorce her son and prevent her from seeing her two grandchildren, was on Tuesday served with an indictment. Romila Singh would stand trial in the Pietermaritzburg High Court in November for the murder of Fiona Khader on February 24. - IOL website

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