Tag: contract

No business is an island, every company in the world depends on a delicate network of relationships with customers, suppliers, service providers, employees, contractors and other entities and people to run its operations. In most cases, these business relationships are governed by legal contracts that outline the obligations and entitlements of each party.

The Supreme Court of Appeal has reaffirmed that if a written contract provides that any variation of its terms must be in writing, any purported variation by the parties which is not in writing will be void. Trying to get around the non-variation clause by relying on estoppel was not successful.

The Supreme Court of Appeal held that where one party to a contract repudiates the contract by expressing an intention not to be bound by their obligations, extinctive prescription to defeat a claim for damages or performance runs from the date that the other party accepts the repudiation and cancels the contract.

The technological developments impacting the legal profession are consistent with the trends sweeping through several professions where many offerings and services are becoming available...

The "fall” of three more major metropolitan municipalities from the ANC to the DA has been hot news in South Africa lately.