by Candi Ferreira | Jul 25, 2025 | Articles
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 contain suspensive conditions, a common example being the bond clause...
by Candi Ferreira | Jun 22, 2025 | Articles, Legal Speak
Legal Speak Made Easy: Trust Account You will most often come across trust accounts in your dealings with attorneys and estate agents, who must use them to hold funds on behalf of clients and other third parties. The funds in a trust account must be kept in a...
by Candi Ferreira | Jun 22, 2025 | Articles
How to Avoid Fighting Over the House – A Guide for Life Partners “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of bandages and adhesive tape.” (Groucho Marx) It’s a perennial topic of dispute in our courts. A couple lives together, sharing the same roof and everything else...
by Candi Ferreira | Jun 22, 2025 | Articles
Good News for Grandma: The Law Wants You to Have Access to Your Grandchildren “Grandparents, like heroes, are as necessary to a child’s growth as vitamins.” (Quoted in the judgment below) One of the greatest tragedies of family fall-outs will always be the effect they...
by Candi Ferreira | Jun 22, 2025 | Articles
“The legal principles, as I understand them, do not confer on me the powers of Father Christmas. I cannot rescue the un-rescuable.” (Quoted in the judgment below) We all want loyal, competent staff who remain motivated to stay with us in the long term, but the reality...
by Candi Ferreira | Jun 22, 2025 | Articles
A R4.25m Warning to Choose Your Conveyancer with Care “Trust me, I’m a lawyer.” (Popular T-shirt slogan) South African property buyers and sellers will have been cheered by news that we are now officially the most affordable country in the world in which to buy a...
