Tag: legal

The [fake] case of state protection failing employment justice? Given how I have spent the last twenty or so years of my career, I tend at second blush when evaluating individuals in their careers to view them through an employment relations lens (and with those higher profile employees a bit of governance oversight thrown in).

Technology is advancing much more quickly than most people anticipated even a decade ago. This begs the question as to whether or not our social, economic and political institutions and structures are equipped, or have developed sufficiently, to deal with the ethical and legal challenges that these advancements have brought and are ever more rapidly bringing.

Hilton Petersen – partner Petersen Hertog Attorneys and Dr Ivor Blumenthal, unpack and discuss the law around the usage of drones and how this...

The International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) welcomes the ruling by South Africa's North Gauteng High Court ordering the Government to revoke its notice of withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The business cost of failure to consider environmental impact management extends beyond reputational damage and could entail jail time and multi-million-rand fines for law-breakers....

On 11 January 2017, President Zuma signed the following Finance Bills into Law. Taxation Laws Amendment Act The main purpose of the Bill is to amend...

The Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) Act has made it compulsory for all listed companies and public entities to formally report on their empowerment status to a newly created BEE commission.

Only a small percentage of South African businesses have reached their potential level of Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) compliancy, making the rest increasingly...

Reacting to South Africa's withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC), international law expert Dr Mark Ellis, Executive Director of the International Bar Association...

South Africans will not be surprised to learn from the 2016 Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) report, published by the Fraser Institute, that their country has lost another 12 places on the economic freedom index, dropping from 93rd in 2013 to 105th in 2014 (the latest year for which comprehensive figures are available for the 159 countries analysed). They will nevertheless be distressed to learn that SA has lost 73 places on the index since 2000.