Tag: civil litigation

The High Court of South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal Local Division, Durban, recently delivered judgment. This follows a dispute concerning the supply of liquid petroleum gas (LPG). The Plaintiff, a supplier of LPG, had provided the product to the First Defendant over several years.

In a bold move to overhaul a justice system buckling under the weight of unprecedented gamesmanship by defendant counsel in delaying court dates, South Africa's high courts will institute mandatory mediation for civil cases before any trial dates are assigned. This sweeping directive was issued on 14 April and is slated to take effect in May 2025.

Influencers have become one of the best ways to get your products sold online, and many brands invest millions into 'top-tier' influencers to promote their products. Unfortunately, this has created a situation where some influencers, knowingly or unknowingly, promote counterfeit goods.

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a highly volatile and uncertain environment for businesses resulting in a litany of new or heightened risks for directors and officers (D&O) as well as exacerbating the situation in an already strained D&O insurance market.

With the reputation for developing training material that reduced the failure rate at the legal Bar examinations from 40% pre 2003, to less than 2% in 2011, CG Marnewick can be trusted to bring a highly valuable resource to the profession, giving civil and criminal litigators the skills to excel.

William Merideth from Kentucky, USA, aka, “the Drone Slayer” achieved notoriety in 2015 when he used a shotgun to down a drone flying over...