Tag: breach
Incentivising integrity boosts governance and accountability
Collaboration between government and business is vital to realising economic growth. Government should set up a conducive environment for businesses to operate while businesses ensure that they help grow the economy and employ citizens. This partnership must ensure that socio-economic goals are also met for the benefit of citizens.
Employee self-service portals empower!
With remote work firmly entrenched in our reality, employee self-service systems have become a game-changer, digitising and automating critical tasks to ease the administrative load on payroll and HR teams. These web or mobile-based platforms offer employees direct access to their personal HR information, enabling them to manage various aspects of their employment independently.
The law on guarantees revisited and confirmed
The nature of guarantees has once again been dealt with decisively by the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) this time in the matter between Bonifacio and another vs Lombard (Bonifacio). A guarantee is an obligation to make payment upon the occurrence of an event.
Contract’s sanctity must balance with dignity & equality principles
The applicant was the registered owner of commercial property. On 04 November 2021, the owner of commercial property cancelled the lease agreement and later changed the locks on the premises after placing the lessee on terms for arrear rentals.
It’s time to turn employees into ‘human firewalls’
Cybersecurity education, through the use of anti-phishing training programs, is vital in a world where humans remain the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain. Cybersecurity is a term on every businessperson’s mind, as the legal, financial and reputational implications of a breach are massive.
Interpreting a settlement agreement
The Supreme Court of Appeal, in Pelham Stephanus Bothma and Others v Tertius Bothma N.O and Another (Case number 748/2019) [2021] ZASCA 46 (15 April 2021), re-affirmed the position regarding the interpretation of legal documents, re-stating the principle that only admissible evidence of context, conservatively applied, may be led in resolving an interpretation dispute.
Can a contract be cancelled if mostly paid?
The cancellation of a contract will not be justified where most of the price already paid and restitution unlikely. The question is whether the breach is so serious that it is fair to allow the innocent party to cancel the contract and undo all its consequences.
DELINQUENT DIRECTOR: CONSEQUENCES
The fiduciary duties of a company director are found in section 76 of the Companies Act 71 of 2008 ("the Act”) and the common...
