by Jay Pillay Incorporated | Jun 2020 | Contract, Property, Wills and Estate Planning
“To sign a document means to authenticate that which stands for or is intended to represent the name of the person who is to authenticate” (quoted in the case below) We all know that verbal agreements, although fully binding for most types of transaction, are a recipe...
by Jay Pillay Incorporated | Jun 2020 | Business, Company / Corporate / Compliance
“A stitch in time saves nine” (wise old proverb) The COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant lockdown have opened up new avenues of profit for some businesses, but they have also subjected many others to the spectre of business failure. Unfortunately we can expect...
by Jay Pillay Incorporated | Jun 2020 | Employment and Labour Law
“O brave new world” (Shakespeare) The COVID-19 pandemic will doubtless lead to many new developments on the legal front. For example, with widespread employee retrenchment now an unfortunate reality in our struggling economy, all employers, employees and trade unions...
by Jay Pillay Incorporated | Jun 2020 | Business, Information Technology Law / Cyberlaw
At long last the main provisions of POPIA (the Protection of Personal Information Act) have been gazetted, and they will commence on 1 July 2020. That means that the one year transitional period will expire on 30 June 2021. Don’t panic just yet, and ignore...
by Jay Pillay Incorporated | Jun 2020 | Business, Website of the Month
“This Too Shall Pass. It might pass like a kidney stone, but it will pass” (Unknown) Entrepreneurs and the small businesses they run are bearing much of the brunt of our deepening economic woes. Some SMEs have prospered, others have sunk – most of us have just battled...
