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| in short |

| can you trust your trustee? |

 

Trustees are generally understood to be individuals of sound moral character, fit and proper…the list goes on. In a recent case heard by Judge Erasmus (in Stander and Others v Schwulst and Others) the Cape High Court was subjected to a few somewhat trying characters who were dead set on keeping the majority of a trust’s funds “safe” in their own hands. 

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How often does it happen that a lease agreement is cancelled and just as you would like to have the leased premises vacated, the tenant turns around and states that there were certain improvements made to the property and before he leaves he would like to see some compensation for those improvements.

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Regstellende aksie is ‘n term waarmee die meerderheid van die algemene publiek vertroud is, veral wanneer dit kom  by die aansoek doen vir werk. Dit gebeur daagliks dat daar in ‘n werksonderhoud aan ‘n kandidaat gesê word  dat die aanstelling ‘n “regstellende aksie aanstelling is”, en hierdie nuus mag dan goed of sleg wees afhangende  van die kandidaat se velkleur. In die saak van Reynardt v University of South Africa (2008) 4 BLLR 318 (LC)  het Meneer Reynardt gevoel daar was onregverdig teen hom gediskrimineer op grond van sy kleur en het ‘n aksie teen Unisa ingestel.

 

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| nowheresville |

| dodgy attorney tries to spin a web of lies |

There is a host of case law providing us with stories of unscrupulous attorneys, one of them being Oshry vs Natal Law Society. In this case the applicant unsuccessfully applied to be re-admitted as an attorney after being struck from the roll.

 

The applicant was admitted as an attorney at the age of 31, after practicing in Johannesburg, he was enrolled as an attorney in Durban and started practicing. He was 35 at the time, the court noted, ‘a man of mature years.’ After practicing briefly he left to go and live in Israel, and the Natal Law Society began to investigate his conduct.

 

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| hush! that might be top secret... |

Earlier this year, Parliament’s ad hoc committee on National Intelligence published a draft bill which deals with such cloak-and-dagger things as protecting state information, or 007-like things such as how certain information might be protected from destruction or disclosure.

 

If the Cambridge Five had played their games in the modern day South Africa, they would, in terms of the new Act, have been branded with very popular Hollywood-offences such as espionage distributing false information to the state, which could have secured them visit to Polsmoor Prison for up to 25 years…

 

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| rollonfriday |

| judge bans 'talula does the hula' |

A New Zealand judge has granted a twelve year old girl the right to change her name. Fair enough, given it was previously "Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii".

   

The girl's parents gave her the extraordinary name but understandably she rejected it, referring to herself only as "K". In a custody battle between her parents, the judge agreed to make the girl a ward of court so that she could legally change her name and spare herself any more embarrassment.

 

He reprimanded the parents for the "very poor judgement" they had shown when naming her, making clear legal precedent with his ruling that being called Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii amounts to a "social disability". 

        

Other names that have been banned in New Zealand include Sex Fruit, Keenan Got Lucy and Yeah Detroit. Although apparently, Number 16 Bus Shelter (clearly Posh and Becks fans), Violence and Midnight Chardonnay are just fine.

     

Although the court confirmed that Talula had now changed her name they refused to say to what. Probably Deirdre.

 

(This section is made possible courtesy of RollOnFriday.com, visit them at www.rollonfriday.com)

 

 

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