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Brand-New Car Giving You Nightmares? CPA to the Rescue
'The Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 (CPA) establishes a broad and comprehensive scope for consumer protection. Its purview includes...
King-Essack & Associates
Jul 19, 20243 min read
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Lending to a Friend or Relative – When Must You Register as a Credit Provider?
'In life, we never lose friends, we only learn who the true ones are.' (Unknown) Lending money to a friend or family member in need...
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May 31, 20242 min read
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Rising Damp and Failed Waterproofing: How to Sue the Sellers
'[w]here a seller recklessly tells a half-truth or knows the facts but does not reveal them because he or she has not bothered to...
King-Essack & Associates
May 24, 20243 min read
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The Pothole Plague – Claiming Damages
'If cars are required to be roadworthy, shouldn’t roads be required to be car-worthy?' (Online meme) If you fall victim to a...
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May 16, 20242 min read
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Who Owns Your Employee’s Invention? Lessons from the 'Please Call Me' Saga
24 April 2024 is ‘World Intellectual Property Day’. It’s 'an opportunity to explore how intellectual property (IP) encourages and can...
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Apr 24, 20243 min read
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When to Lawyer Up
'The first thing we do is, let’s kill all the lawyers.' (Shakespeare) Shakespeare must have had an unhappy experience or two with the...
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Apr 11, 20243 min read
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Ponzi Schemes: Can Liquidators Claw Back 600% of Payouts?
'MTl's business clearly amounted to an unlawful ponzi-scheme i.e. a fraudulent investing scam promising high rates of return to investors...
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Apr 3, 20244 min read
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'Pay Extra for My Generator or I’ll Cut You Off During Load-shedding'. Can a Landlord Do That?
Load-shedding continues to plague us and our businesses, and when tenants are connected during power cuts to their landlord’s alternative...
King-Essack & Associates
Feb 22, 20242 min read
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Can You Use Land Use Laws to Close Down a Neighbour’s Business?
'A bad neighbour is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.' (Hesiod, poet of Ancient Greece) Your neighbour’s business...
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Jan 24, 20243 min read
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Buying a Used Car – Your Rights
'The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one.' (Old proverb) You buy a 'pre-loved' vehicle which turns out to be a complete dud....
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Nov 16, 20234 min read
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Suing for a Supermarket 'Slip ‘n Trip' – What Must You Prove?
'The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger' (William Shakespeare) Tripping over aisle blockages or slipping on floors made slick by...
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Oct 25, 20233 min read
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Security Warning: Property Sale Cybercrime Surges & New AI Danger
'The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.' (Napoleon Bonaparte) This October marks the 20th anniversary of the globally...
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Oct 11, 20234 min read
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Landlords: You Cannot Cut a Defaulting Tenant’s Water and Electricity
'A fundamental principle in issue here is that nobody may take the law into their own hands. In order to preserve order and peace in...
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Sep 27, 20233 min read
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How to Stop Someone Damaging Your Good Name on Social Media
'He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed.' (Shakespeare) As our lives move...
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Sep 1, 20232 min read
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Your New House Leaks Like a Sieve – Can You Sue the Seller?
'There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.' (Anne Tyler) You move into your...
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Aug 1, 20234 min read
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Maintenance Claims and Life Partners
More and more couples are opting to live together as permanent life partners rather than enter into a formal marriage. The risk for such...
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Jun 14, 20234 min read
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Losing Your Property to Acquisitive Prescription
'… a person shall by prescription become the owner of a thing which he has possessed openly and as if he were the owner thereof for an...
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May 3, 20233 min read
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Ombuds - Why and How to Use Them
'Who you gonna call?' (Ghostbusters) An 'ombud' (often called ombudsperson, ombudsman or ombudswoman and sometimes not referred to as an...
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Apr 19, 20233 min read
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Can You Claim Damages After Hitting a Pothole?
'The American Automobile Association estimated in the five years prior to 2016 that 16 million drivers in the United States have suffered...
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Mar 22, 20232 min read
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Suing a Degree-Forging Employee for R2,2m
'Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive' (Sir Walter Scott, quoted in the judgment below) It’s a sad fact of...
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Feb 21, 20232 min read
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