by Jay Pillay Incorporated | Jan 2020 | General Interest, Road Traffic
Traffic accidents, your fault or not, are traumatic affairs. Even minor dings come with their hassles – panel beaters, tow trucks, shock and recriminations, reams of paperwork, having to get a Crash Report Number for the insurers… That last bit has always been a...
by Jay Pillay Incorporated | Mar 2019 | Employment and Labour Law, General Interest, Road Traffic
“The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers” (humourist Dave Barry) AARTO (the Administrative Adjudication of Road...
by Jay Pillay Incorporated | Feb 2019 | Criminal Law / Crime, General Interest, Road Traffic
“We must not make a scarecrow of the law” (Shakespeare) A criminal record, even for a minor offence from decades back, comes with very serious and lifetime consequences. It will hang around forever, just waiting to ambush you when you apply for a job, or a travel...
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...