Case Note: Firstrand Bank Limited v Macroton CC and Others (5541/2014) [2016] ZAKZPHC 2 (5 January 2016)

Summary In or during February 2013, Macroton CC (“the First Respondent”) concluded several agreements with Firstrand Bank Limited (“the Bank”), one of which was pertinent to the application before the Court; namely, a Short-Term Direct Working Capital Facility (“the overdraft facility”) wherein the Bank granted the First Respondent an overdraft to the sum of R900,000.00
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The S118(3) Monster

Case City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality v PJ Mitchell (38/2015) [2015] ZASCA 1 (29 January 2016) Introduction This article discusses the implications (but not the correctness of) the decision handed down by the Supreme Court of Appeal in City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality v PJ Mitchell (38/2015) [2015] ZASCA 1 (29 January 2016) (hereinafter “Mitchell”).
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Case Note: Burger and another v Executor of the Estate of the Late Malan N.O and Others (10631/06,8951/06)[2016] ZAWCHC 3 (20 January 2016)

Summary This matter involves two wills. One executed by Elizabeth Magdalena Malan (“the testatrix”) on 21 May 2003 and another “the disputed will” ostensibly executed by Malan on 22 September 2004. In the earlier will, Malan bequeathed her property situated at 17 Jacoma Court, Strand (“the property”) to Jeanette Van Der Merwe, the third Defendant.
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Case Note: Orthocraft (Pty) t/a Advanced Hair Studios v Musindo and Another (J1636/15) [2016] ZALCJHB 12 (14 January 2016)

Summary The Applicant and the Second Respondent both conduct business within the cosmetics industry. The First Respondent was under the employ of the Applicant until her husband was involved in a car accident, which lead to her resignation in July 2015. The First Respondent’s employment contract contained a restraint of trade clause. Two other employees
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A Role for Both Parents in a Child’s Life

The Times. Friday January 8, 2016 Megan Harrington-Johnson, a partner at Schindlers Attorneys, looks at the question of the primary residence of children after divorce, noting a move away from the old assumptions of the mother as the primary caregiver. In this article, I do not want to delve too deeply into the concept of
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CASE NOTE: GRANT v CARMELITA AND OTHERS (13040/2013) [2015] ZAGPJHC 131 (19 JUNE 2015)

SUMMARY The first respondent (the mother of the minor children) and the second respondent (the father of the minor children) divorced in 2005. The first respondent was awarded primary residence over ET and IT (collectively referred to as “the minor children”).  A year later the first respondent married the applicant (the adoptive father of the
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