by Sean Slabber | 2 Mar, 2017 | 2017, Book Review, News
Reviewed by Louis Rood. Every individual person is unique in personality, humanity, and being. Yet we all have much in common. We are conceived, we are born, we live and we die. This book, now in its sixth edition, deals concisely but comprehensively with all aspects...
by Sean Slabber | 20 Feb, 2017 | 2017, Book Review, News
Reviewed by Louis Rood. Many litigants can testify bitterly to the costs, complexity, risks, uncertainty and unforeseen consequences of traditional litigation. Particularly in commercial disputes where the parties often require swift finality and certainty, it is not...
by Sean Slabber | 13 Feb, 2017 | 2017, Book Review, News
Reviewed by Louis Rood. Despite its title, this book encompasses far more than the traditional common law contractual relationship between landlord and tenant. The provision of housing, shelter, and “a roof over your head” for the homeless has become a...
by Sean Slabber | 6 Feb, 2017 | 2017, Book Review, News
Reviewed by Louis Rood. The 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has brought to the fore the rights of indigenous peoples to the protection of their knowledge and culture. Established legal intellectual property systems, which view...
by Sean Slabber | 30 Jan, 2017 | 2017, Book Review, News
Reviewed by Louis Rood. It has been said that although South Africans achieved freedom under the Constitution of 1996, they nevertheless remain in bondage. Progress, for example through investment in property development, housing and infrastructure, inevitably...
by Sean Slabber | 23 Jan, 2017 | 2017, Book Review, News
Servitudes are limited real rights in the property of another person. They have their origins in ancient systems of feudalism. That is why many servitudes are agricultural in nature – a right of way across the land of another, the right of the dominant owner to graze...
