by Jay Pillay Incorporated | Sep 2018 | Property
“Honesty is the best policy” (Benjamin Franklin) A recent High Court decision again confirms that when it comes to selling your house, honesty is indeed the best policy. Specifically, disclose all defects you know of to potential buyers, or risk expensive litigation...
by Jay Pillay Incorporated | Sep 2018 | Criminal Law / Crime, Employment and Labour Law, Road Traffic
The media has been awash with reports (sometimes conflicting, often vague) of what the recent Constitutional Court ruling actually means in practice. Whether you agree with the ruling or not, and whether or not you personally have ever had (or intend to have) anything...
by Jay Pillay Incorporated | Sep 2018 | Employment and Labour Law
“Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples” (Comedian George Burns) Record numbers of Baby Boomers are now reaching their 60s, and if you are an employer in any size of business (from the smallest family-owned enterprise to the...
by Jay Pillay Incorporated | Sep 2018 | Business, Company / Corporate / Compliance
“A company must keep minutes of the meetings of the board, and any of its committees…” (Extract from the Companies Act) Steinhoff and other high profile corporate scandals both here and overseas highlight the need for directors to ensure that their board and committee...
by Jay Pillay Incorporated | Sep 2018 | Family Law
The inevitability of death doesn’t detract from the shock and distress that it brings to the grieving survivors, and much as we don’t like to plan for these things it will help at least a little to know what to do in practice after a death. The formalities...
