Tag: South African law
The force of JBCC substitution – no second bite at arbitration
Construction adjudication often receives treatment as interim. Arbitration or litigation then waits as the final forum. In a judgment delivered by the Eastern Cape Division in Makhanda on 30 April 2026, Krüger AJ issued a clear warning. He stressed that this assumption only holds if the contract supports it.
BOOK REVIEW | Arthur Chaskalson
Arthur Chaskalson: A Life Dedicated to Justice for All is a biography of a remarkable life lived in service both to law and to the struggle for social change and justice. The social change it describes is the victory over apartheid, which was won on several fronts and through the efforts of people in many nations, but an important one of those fronts lay in the courts of South Africa itself.
