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Portions of the eThekwini Municipality's Credit Control and Debt
Collection Policy, adopted by Council, relate to Revenue Clearance
Certificates. eThekwini Municipality - 1 May 2009
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Black Lawyers
Association
MVA
seminar
Municipal
law seminar
Recent Journal
Articles
Constitutional
Court Review
Tydskrif vir die
Suid-Afrikaanse Reg
- an
article discusses the state's failure to comply with its
constitutional duties and its impact on democracy Recent
Judgments
Competition Commission,
Tribunal and Appeal Court
- Xstrata
/ Anglo American
Constitutional
Court
- employer's appeal
against an order of 10 months compensation awarded to a
constructively dismissed employee ; Joe
Slovo squatter camp decision ; outcome of farmer's
struggle to get diplomatic protection while the Zimbabwe government
seized his land ; school's language policy up for discussion again
Supreme
Court of Appeal of South Africa
- rights of employees on termination of
employment
Commercial
Crimes Courts
- bogus attorney leaves accountant in debt
Electoral Court
- IEC officer found guilty of electoral fraud
Equality
Courts
Labour
Courts - SABC strike ; NUMSA v General Motors ; David Bullard goes
to court
Labour
Appeal Court - "incorrect to base the award on the
remuneration of the employee"
Eastern
Cape High Court : Bisho
Eastern
Cape High Court : Grahamstown
Eastern
Cape High Court : Mthatha
Eastern Cape
High Court : Port Elizabeth
Free
State High Court - 'canned lion' hunting banned.
KwaZulu-Natal
High Court : Durban
- Early Morning Market traders go to court ; four
members of the KwaZulu-Natal Conservation Board have been reinstated
KwaZulu-Natal
High Court : Pietermaritzburg
-
Shembe leadership battle ; Sani Pass accident victim receives payment
award ; Jabulani Mabaso
stripped of expensive properties and
luxury cars ; sign language as an official Matric subject ; sale of the old Natal Command military base
in Durban
North
Gauteng High Court
-
temporary
reprieve for more than one million South African firearm owners who have not
yet re-applied for their licences ; Dirk Prinsloo has been arrested in
Belarus
North-West
High
Court : Mafikeng - Law
Society of the Northern Provinces and Another v Law Society of
Bophuthatswana
Northern
Cape High Court
- property to be seized from the
Northern Cape police to pay for unlawful arrest
South
Gauteng High Court
- victory
for gang-rape survivor Buyisiwe ; Glen Agliotti is being sued for R29
million by Kebble's former companies ; Tannenbaum case
Western
Cape High Court - implementation of
the new Direct Payment System by the Road Accident Fund
Magistrates
Courts - Travelgate ; Parktown Boys' High assault case ;
Judge Motata ; Lotter Case ; Confed Cup break-in to Brazilian team's
hotel accused found guilty and sentenced
Regional
Courts - R
Kelly scam ; alleged Yengeni arrest cover-up
South
Africa. Government Information
Speeches : Budget Vote ;
State of KwaZulu-Natal Address ; response to State of the Nation
Address
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more
Legislation
Broadcasting
Act ; Companies Act ; Constitution
Seventeenth Amendment Draft Bill ; Draft
Constitutional Eighteenth Amendment Bill of 2009 and State Liability
Bill ; Second Hand
Goods Act. Also includes links to legislation now
on the Polity website.
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more
Legal
Profession
Jeff Radebe intends introducing the Legal Practice Bill to
Parliament this year ; the transformation of the legal profession
moves ahead in many countries ; awarding of legal aid contracts in the
United Kingdom is a contentious issue.
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more
South Africa
2010 developments ; environmental courts to be reinstated ;
increased regulation likely in a number of industries ; new health
plan ; events surrounding the Judicial Service Commission, judicial
appointments, Minister Radebe, Judge Hlophe, and transformation of the
judiciary ; taxi drivers' minimum wages ; doctors' strike ;
retrenchment and unemployment issues ; electricity tariff ; municipal
management and procedure ; recent comments by Trevor Manuel ; future
of the provinces ; feasibility of the establishment of an insurance policy
to cater for all rail commuters
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more
Africa
A
prominent
Swazi human rights lawyer has been arrested
; eighteen Zimbabweans face arrest in South Africa after election
violence in their homeland ; calls for a return to the Zimbabwean
dollar ; elephants in Zimbabwe could be affected by noisy helicopter
flights to Victoria Falls.
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more
Asia
A Chinese firm's bid to buy Hummer could be halted by Chinese
environmental concerns.
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more
Australasia
Australia introduces parallel civil and criminal sanctions on
cartel conduct ; the case for death with dignity arises again.
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more
Europe
A terrified financial advisor has been held to ransom by a group
of pensioners in Germany ; Spanish parliament discusses a change to
the law that would reduce the international jurisdiction of their
judges ; glacial activity leads to the re-drawing of the border
between Italy and Switzerland ; a soccer player seeks 'moral compensation' for discriminatory
remarks ; a Belgian teenager sues after waking up to find half her
face covered in tattoos.
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more Middle
East
An annulment of the election
in Iran has been ruled out ; and a South African woman who was
sentenced to three months' imprisonment for sleeping with her married
boss has lost her appeal.
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more United
Kingdom
For the first time in 400 years a criminal trial will go ahead
with no jury because of the danger to members of any jury being
targeted ; a leading Jewish state school broke race laws by refusing to admit a
boy whose mother had converted to the religion ; a
wealthy property agent
does not have to share his assets with his South African
"wife" because they were never truly married, despite
holding a ceremony ; five elderly Kenyans will sue the British Government
for a
lost decade of alleged torture, suppression and humiliation ; the
Ministry of Defence is being sued by four families of servicemen killed in Snatch Land Rovers in Iraq and
Afghanistan and will also be paying damages to servicemen who
suffered injuries from the cold ; the Iraq War inquiry will no longer
be held in secret.
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more United
States and Canada
The US Supreme Court rejects school strip searches ; Justice Edwin Cameron speaks out against
criminally prosecuting people who fail
to disclose their HIV status ; the
Supreme Court of Canada is to hear a case involving a prominent
attorney who was arrested for
"possession of a pie with unlawful intent" ; an attorney
well-known for taking on high-profile human rights cases has been
disbarred ; Exxon Mobil Corp has been ordered to pay $507.5
million in punitive damages stemming from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil
spill off Alaska ; the company that signed Michael Jackson up for a
forthcoming concert tour faces financial liability.
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more
International
South Africa and Rwanda call for an African court ; international
focus on human trafficking ; the importance of proportionality as
a test to limits on human rights ; Formula One's anticipated breakaway
and the law.
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more
Miscellaneous
E-Things
Bloggers' anonymity can no longer be guaranteed.
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more
Vacancies
There are vacancies for a senior Litigator, a recently-admitted
Attorney and Candidate Attorneys ; openings for Candidate Attorneys
and a member of support-staff specialising in Estates and/or
Conveyancing are sought.
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more
This
Day in History
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Last
Thought
"I
find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others.
That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with animals : I
feel the less harm I do, the lighter my heart. I love a light heart.
And when I know I'm causing suffering, I feel the heaviness of it.
It's a physical pain. So it's self-interest that I don't want to cause
harm"
Alice Walker, author (b. 1944)
Source : Wordsmith
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