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Important Note to all our clients: Do you have a will in place?
For the week 12 to 16 September 2016 we will with pleasure draft a basic will for you free of charge. As highlighted in our lead article this month, having a properly-drawn and executed will is vitally important, so give us a call if we can help.
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Trumped! A Home Owner Can Be Evicted As An Unlawful Occupier
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Did you know that even as the owner of a house, you could still be evicted from it as an “unlawful occupier”?
That could happen if, to take one example from a recent SCA (Supreme Court of Appeal) matter, you give someone else a right of habitation (“habitatio”). But why, you may ask, would you do that?
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Directors And Personal Liability: The Little-Known Section Waiting In Ambush
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Since the “new” 2008 Companies Act came into effect in 2011, directors and other company officers have had to shoulder a raft of additional responsibilities and risks, amongst them a significantly increased risk of personal liability.
Consider for example the little-known section 218(2) which waits in ambush for the unwary in the “Miscellaneous Matters” section at the tail-end of the Act, and which reads: . . .
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Your September Website: Who’s Who In The Panama Papers?
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Find out who’s behind almost 320,000 offshore companies and trusts named in the Panama Papers leaks. Bear in mind that just because a person or entity is named in the database in no way suggests that they are guilty of anything – in fact it is believed that many (perhaps most) of the investments involved are entirely legitimate.
To access the ICIJ (the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists)’s searchable database of the leaks –
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