dwp eNewsletter
Vol 2 : Ed 9 - February 2009
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| welcome |
Welcome back to all our readers. We hope that you have had a great festive season and that you feel well and rested after lounging on the beach, criss-crossing the slopes, soaking in the scenery or just getting to all those pesky projects at home during the holidays.
As is fitting for a new year and a new start, we would also like to introduce our newest addition to the newsletter: the Swindon Property section, made possible by Swindon Properties. More about that later in this newsletter.
| swindon properties synergy launch |
Swindon Properties and dwp have a long history of working together and we are planning in joining forces to to bring you some news and insight pertaining to the property market, with a special focus on the property market in Cape Town.
dwp and Swindon Property's collaboration will enable clients a more seamless interaction when engaging with properties and property investments.
Swindon Property is a commercial property company involved in various aspects of property including Investment sales, leasing of offices/retail/Industrial, Developments, Property management and project management. At present they have brokers operating in the southern & northern suburbs, industrial areas of Airport, Epping and Paarden Eiland and in the City bowl and surrounds.
For more information, pop over to www.swinprop.com and have a squiz on what they have to offer.
| in short |
| to vote or not to vote - do you count? |
A
hot topic on every South African citizen’s lips at the moment and the
subject of much debate between South Africa’s various political parties
is the issue of whether South Africans living abroad should be allowed
to vote in the country’s next general elections.
Presently, Section 33 of the Electoral Act extends the right to vote to only those South Africans who are temporarily ‘absent’ from the country...
>>> Read further (full article)
| ek sê |
| hou jou fingers uit die kasregister! |
Alle
prokureurs weet wat eties is wanneer dit kom by die hantering van
trustgeld maar tog hoor ons gereeld van prokureurs wat van die rol
geskrap word weens die feit dat hulle met hul “hande in die till” gevang
word.
>>> Lees verder (volledige artikel)
| mekanik |
| reckless trading in a cc |
Creditors
may at times be faced with a close corporation that does not settle its
debts. In these scenarios one may look to the Close Corporations Act 69
of 1984 (hereinafter the Act) for a remedy. Section 64(1) of this Act
grants a court the authority to affix personal liability for the debts
of a close corporation on various persons if they are knowingly party to
reckless or fraudulent trading by the close corporation.
>>> Read further (full article)
| nowheresville |
| the world's weird laws |
While
at times we may seriously question the good sense of our legislators, it
seems that other nations of the world have a plethora of bizarre laws.
England, in particular has a number of outlandish laws currently in
place. Many of these bizarre laws, date back to before the beginning of
time and have just never been repealed despite being, for all practical
purposes, obsolete. Below is a list of the silly laws currently in place
across the globe.
1. In France, it is forbidden to call a pig Napoleon
(continued...)
>>> Read further (full article)
| swindon property minute |
| bree street cottages undergo an upgrade |
The
character cottages at the top end of Bree Street 215 to 231 Bree and a
portion of Watson and Orphan Streets, which were recently sold by
Swindon Properties, are on the cards for a well deserved up- grade, says
Andrew Dewey of Swindon Property Services who is assisting with the
letting management and tenant mix.
The area is scheduled to receive a new landscaped façade which will turn these once historic office & residential cottages into a new node for niche retail tenants...
>>> Read further (full article)
| rollonfriday |
| aussie bar fined for drunk law students |
An Aussie bar has been fined $2,000 after 60 law students went on a drunken rampage - some of them, RollOnFriday regrets to report, carrying plastic bags of their own vomit.
The Blackstone Society, made up of law students from the university of Western Australia, visited the Shed Bar in Northbridge as part of an organised pub crawl. Perth Magistrates Court heard that under the rules of the crawl, students had to visit ten pubs without allowing a drop of alcohol or, sorry about this, vomit to touch the ground. Students were allowed to hurl into plastic bags, as long as they then tied the full bags to their wrists and carried on.
The Australian public, and their magistrates courts, object to this sort of thing. Peter Fraser, lawyer for the Shed Bar, accepted that one of the students had chundered into a bag, but argued in defence that "maybe the guy was a two-pot screamer"*.
Magistrate Jeremy Packington said that as a former vice president of the Blackstone Society he had considered disqualifying himself, but decided that as most of the bench had been members too there wasn't much point. He fined the bar and its licensee $1,000 each.
*A person incapable of drinking two pints of beer in an Australian bar without chundering
(This section is made possible courtesy of RollOnFriday.com, visit them at www.rollonfriday.com)
| admin stuff |
|as boring as the small print |
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the information in this newsletter should be taken as professional
advice. Unfortunately human error does sometimes creep in and the
printers devil also does not always keep away from the door. We can
therefore not accept any responsibility for any of the content of this
newsletter without you coming to see us first so that we can take proper
instructions from you about your circumstances and apply the necessary
legal points to your problem.
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