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Legal Speak Made Easy “Maintenance” or “Alimony”?
Legal Speak Made Easy “Maintenance” or “Alimony”? You’ll often come across the term “alimony” (from the Latin “alimonia”, meaning “nourishment” or “support”) in American movies and series. It also...
Hamburger From Hell Takes a Bite out of Restaurant’s Profits & Reputation
Hamburger From Hell Takes a Bite out of Restaurant’s Profits & Reputation “You must take reasonable care to avoid acts or omissions which you can reasonably foresee would be likely to injure...
What Can You do When a Director Deadlock is Killing Your Company?
What Can You do When a Director Deadlock is Killing Your Company? “Diplomats operate through deadlock, which is the way by which two sides can test each other's determination.” (Henry Kissinger)...
Divorce 101: A Simple Guide to the Legal Side
Divorce 101: A Simple Guide to the Legal Side “You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” (C.S. Lewis) Divorce is traumatic, to the extent...
Your House Burns to the Ground: Can You Hold the Seller Liable?
Your House Burns to the Ground: Can You Hold the Seller Liable? “Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides.” (William Shakespeare, in King Lear) A recent High Court judgment confirms, yet again,...
Legal Speak Made Easy – “Nolle prosequi”
Legal Speak Made Easy - “Nolle prosequi” A nolle prosequi (Latin for “do not want to pursue”) is a formal certificate issued by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) when it decides not to pursue...
Private Prosecution: Neighbours at War
Private Prosecution: Neighbours at War “I charge you by the law.” (William Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice) Victims of crime are entitled to see the perpetrators brought to justice. Feeling...
What’s the Normal Retirement Age? It’s Complicated, as The Plumber’s Tale Proves
What’s the Normal Retirement Age? It’s Complicated, as The Plumber’s Tale Proves “When cognitive capacities are the focus, the 70s are the new 50s.” (IMF) Fake news articles suggesting that South...
A Thought for Mandela Month – How Does Ubuntu Impact Your Legal Rights?
A Thought for Mandela Month – How Does Ubuntu Impact Your Legal Rights? “In Africa there is a concept known as ‘ubuntu’ – the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of others.”...
A Bond Clause Deadline Whooshes by and a Sale Dies – Can You Revive it?
A Bond Clause Deadline Whooshes by and a Sale Dies – Can You Revive it? “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” (Douglas Adams in The Salmon of Doubt) Contracts often...