Article was written by S’neguau Dlamini, Candidate Attorney, checked and released by Chantelle Gladwin-Wood, Partner at Schindlers Attorneys 17 June 2021 The City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality (“COJ”) often threatens people if they haven’t paid all amounts that the invoices reflect are owed. Sadly, we know that in many cases, the invoices are incorrect and

By Chantelle Gladwin-Wood, Partner, Lauren Squier, Associate, and Eileen Dexter, Candidate Attorney Introduction Property valuation rolls are quite complicated.  Below is a brief explanation of how valuations and valuation rolls work. Tshwane’s 1st Supplementary Valuation Roll Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality’s (“the Municipality”) 1st Supplementary Valuation Roll (“Supp 1”) is open for inspection.  It is open from

By Chantelle Gladwin-Wood, Partner, Lauren Squier, Associate, and Katleho Selepe, Candidate Attorney Introduction Property valuation rolls are quite complicated. Below is a brief explanation of how valuations and valuation rolls work. Johannesburg’s 2018 Supplementary 3 Valuation Roll Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality’s (“the Municipality”) 2018 Supplementary 3 Valuation Roll (“Supplementary 3 Roll”) is open for inspection.  It

Written by Chantelle Gladwin-Wood, Partner and Frank Sebatana, Candidate Attorney Background Many South Africans would have heard about Section 25 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (‘the Constitution’) which provides any and all inhabitants of South African the right to property and constitutional protection of said property. However, recently, the South African

By Chantelle Gladwin- Wood, Partner, Maike Gohl, Junior Partner 18 March 2021 Introduction In recent months there has been a lot of hype in the media with regard to various residents or associations taking action against municipalities that are failing to provide services at all, or properly. As such, we felt that it was necessary

By S’negugu Dlamini, Candidate Attorney and Chantelle Gladwin-Wood, Partner Introduction The City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality (“COJ”) often threaten people if they haven’t paid all amounts that the invoices reflect are owed. Sadly, we know that in many cases, the invoices are incorrect and a portion or even the whole of the amounts demanded, are

By Chantelle Gladwin-Wood (Partner), Anja van Wijk (Senior Associate), and Marc Gevers (Candidate Attorney) October 2020 Introduction This article is one in a series on expropriation, which looks at some of the fundamental legal issues surrounding expropriation in the context of the revised Expropriation Bill published for comment on 9 October 2020 (“Expropriation Bill”). [1]

Case summary written by Dean Scher and checked Ayanda Katjitae 13 October 2020 Background The focus of the judgment is whether the Court has jurisdiction to make an order based upon the agreement of the parties’ legal representatives, where one of the parties had not agreed to the order. Mr Mark Gary Denby, (“the Plaintiff”)

By Chantelle Gladwin-Wood, Partner and Maike Gohl, Partner  INTRODUCTION A disturbing trend is emerging in the property industry in terms of which hundreds of property transfers are being seriously delayed, not because of any of the parties to the sale, but rather because the municipalities are failing to provide rates clearance figures within a reasonable