CHANTELLE LOUISE GLADWIN-WOOD ATTORNEY
+27 (0) 11 448 9678
gladwin@schindlers.co.za
Partner
BA LLB (Rhodes)
LLM (Unisa)
Notary
Conveyancer
Chantelle specialises in all areas of commercial and residential property practice and litigation, including municipal property law, public and administrative law relating to property, sectional title body corporate management, evictions, general property management and property-owning enterprise management, as well as corporate restructurings and corporate taxation matters.
Chantelle has a Master’s Degree in Advanced Property Law from UNISA, and is pursuing her Doctorate in Municipal Law with TUKS. She is also an admitted notary and conveyancer as well as being Chairperson of the Joburg Attorneys’ Association and co-chairperson of the Gauteng Attorneys’ Association.
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- The ‘Immoral’ s7C: Interest on Loan Accounts to Trusts
- Consolidation of Municipal Accounts
- De-registration of Home Owners’ Associations
- The Bolting Horse
- Neighbours and Building Plans
- Does a general valuation roll ever close?
- Liability for Special Levies
- The debate over Expropriation without Compensation
- Public purpose and public interest in the context of expropriation of property
- The Impact of Mitchell and Mathabathe on S 118
- Evidence Supporting Municipal Valuation Objectives
- 2018 General Valuation Roll Fixed Fee Services
- Sectional Title Properties – does zoning or use determine the rating classification?
- The legalities around COJ imposing the “Illegal Use Tariff”
- How to fix incorrect valuations/categorisations of properties “in between” property rolls
- Not getting statements from COJ?
- The Argent Industrial case: Prescription of municipal charges for electricity and water
- The implications of the Constitutional Court decision: Jordaan and Others v City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality and Others
- Levy Clearance Certificates
- Municipal terminations of supply – is a court order necessary?
- Is there a duty on conveyancers to tell purchasers about seller’s historical debt?
- Building plans and Voetstoots
- Muddying the waters: COJ’s confusing “zoning driven rating policy”
- Expropriation #1: Amendments to Section 25?
- Business Rates for Residential Properties
- What to do with a Tenant’s Leftovers
- Expropriation # 2: Tenants and Occupiers
- Income Tax Act S12L: The Carbon Tax
- The Great Escape Clause – Section 110 of the Systems Act
- What kind of Security do Municipal Deposits give a Municipality?
- What Counts as a “Dispute” with a Municipality?
- Can a Consumer “Contract Out” of a Right to Receive a Pre-Termination Notice?
- How to Log a Query, Dispute or Complaint with COJ
- How to Log a Query, Dispute or Complaint with COJ
- Expropriation # 3: The Land Hunger
- Expropriation #4: The Expropriation Bill of 21 December 2018
- 7 Common Mistakes to avoid when Cancelling a Lease Agreement
- Water Heating Systems – Legislative Amendments
- Executive Managing Agents
- Cape Town Municipality’s 2018 General Valuation Roll
- Bitou Municipality’s Supplementary 2 Roll (to the 2017 General Valuation Roll)
- Comments on COJ’s 2019 Rates and Credit Control Policy Review
- Is my Sale of Land Agreement Valid? Common Mistakes that Mess Up Deals
- Do month to month leases constitute fixed term leases? A brief look at the differences between the two and the law that applies to it.
- Fines/Penalties issued by Municipalities
- The Kensington Residents and Ratespayers Association case: Neighbour Disputes, Illegal Buildings and Illegal Use
- Impossible? The Contractual Defense of Impossibility of Performance
- The Removal of “Illegal” Electricity Meters/Connections
- Does the Mandament Van Spolie Protect Commercial Tenants?
- Fines and Penalties in Community Schemes
- Boreholes and Water Use Rights/Allocations
- “Tackling “Urban Delinquency”
- City of Joburg’s Silly Sewer Tariffs
- Liability for ‘Historic’ Municipal Debt in Sectional Title Schemes
- The Impossible Triangle: Landlord v Tenant Municipal Charges
- Body Corporates loans
- Update : How to cancel a Residential lease
- Notional Input Tax Credit: Fixed Property Acquired by a VAT Vendor from a Non-VAT Vendor
- Voetstoots and The Consumer Protection Act
- Muddying the Waters: Coj’s confusing “Zoning Driven Rating Policy”
- NHBRC Certificates
- Noise Pollution
- Provincial Heritage Resources Authority Gauteng: (PHRA-G)
- Engineering Contribution Figures
- Reversal of rates as a results of a categorization change
- Multi-dwelling properties and the COJ
- Spoliation in Commercial leases
- Unusually high water bill?
- Vacant gardens and property rates
- When are engineering contributions due and payable?
- Expropriation #5: Proposed Amendments to SECTION 25 Of The Constitution, February 2020
- Municipalities and “Snail Mail”
- Tshwane’s 2020 General Valuation Roll
- Working from home in Sectional title schemes
- How To Access City of Tshwane’s 2020 General Valuation Roll
- City of Johannesburg’s Expanded Social Packages
- Squatter Rights
- Body Corporates Loans
- A Landlord’s Guide to Rental Recovery and Security: Part 1
- To Cut or Not To Cut: The Million Dollar Question
- Who Should be Opening Body CorporateElectricity and Water Accounts? TheDeveloper or the Body Corporate – Part 1
- Who should be Opening Body Corporate Electricity and Water Accounts? The Developer or the Body Corporate – Part 2
- A Landlord’s Guide to Rental Recovery and Security: Part 2
- Deposits and The City of Johannesburg
- The City of Johannesburg’s Disaster Management Rebate
- How do Section 78(5) Re-Valuations Work?
- COJ’s “Change of Sewer Tariffs”
- Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act 103 of 1993 (“COIDA”) Assessment Fees: Taxes or Not?
- Can COJ be held liable for its Negligence/Failures?
- Tax Filing Season 2020
- What is Mediation?
- Disputes over Common Boundary or Party Walls
- Dispute resolution in Community Schemes – Arbitration or CSOS?
- How long does a municipality legally have to provide Rates Clearance Figures after application therefor has been made?
- Illegal Buildings
- Encroachment by Nuisance Neighbours
- Multi-dwelling properties and the COJ
- Unusually high water bill?
- The City of Johannesburg’s 2018 Supplementary 2 General Valuation Roll
- Expropriation #6: Expropriation Bill V2.0 – October 2020
- Expropriation #7: Expropriation Bill V2.0 and Municipal Charges
- Is the South African legal profession ready to embrace Digitization?
- COJ’ Rates Policy Review 2021/2022 Part 1
- Do Engineering Contributions Prescribe?
- Municipalities and the “Pay Now Argue Later” Principle
- Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Window Dressing in the Legal Profession
- Non-Pathological Criminal Capacity
- Is it lawful for ESKOM to implement load reduction?
- What do residents do when a municipality is infringing on their rights?
- Accommodating Electronic Authentications by calling for amendments to the Justices of The Peace and Commissioners of Oaths Act 16 of 1963
- Accommodating electronic service by sheriff via electronic mail (e-mail) by calling for amendments to Section 44 of the Superior Courts Act 10 of 2013
- Inclusionary Housing
- Inclusionary Housing by Municipalities in South Africa.
- Appeals for overstay
- Unlocking servitude access in ‘landlocked’ property
- Can Perpetrators be Prosecuted for Wilfully Transmitting HIV?
- COJ’s Recycling Levy
- City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality 2018 Supplementary 3 Valuation Roll
- Special shareholders’ meetings: beware of self-help
- City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality First Supplementary Valuation Roll 2020
- Municipalities and the “Pay Now Argue Later” Principle
- Know Your Rights: Illegal Electricity/Water Disconnections by Municipalities.
- Compulsory mediation: Towards the future of Dispute Resolution
- The Current State of Evictions under the Various Adjusted Alert Levels
- Municipal Valuation Rolls in South Africa
- Legality of Blue Light Brigades
- HIV and AIDS discrimination in South Africa.
- Judgment handed down 29 August 2017 in Constitutional Court Chantelle Jordaan and Others v City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality and Others Case number: CCT 283/16, 293/16 and 294/16