by Sean Slabber | 4 Mar, 2019 | 2019, Book Review, News
by Marga van Rooyen (433 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data”– from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) It has been demonstrated many times in South...
by Sean Slabber | 25 Feb, 2019 | 2019, Book Review, News
A Commentary on the JBCC Agreements (3rd Edition) by Stan Segal (601 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za “When we build, let us think that we build forever.”– John Ruskin (1819-1900) In the preface to the second edition of this book (2005),...
by Sean Slabber | 25 Feb, 2019 | 2019, Book Review, News
A Comparative South African Perspective by Howard Chitimira (168 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za “Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.”– George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Where there is money, there is...
by Sean Slabber | 18 Feb, 2019 | 2019, Book Review, News
(5th Edition) by Cerita Joubert (603 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za “Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.”– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) According to the...
by Sean Slabber | 18 Feb, 2019 | 2019, Book Review, News
by Jason Brickhill (contributing Editor) (433 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za “The welfare of the people is the ultimate law”– Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Litigation in the public interest has been enabled by the democratic...
by Sean Slabber | 11 Feb, 2019 | 2019, Book Review, News
A Treatise on the Law in South Africa by Susan Scott (623 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za “The law regarding cession of actions… presupposes a triangle – a debtor, a creditor who becomes a cedant, and a third party, the cessionary, to whom the...