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It seems ridiculous if you are just making a once-off loan to a friend or relative that you might have to register as a credit provider in terms of the National Credit Act, but that’s the import of a new Supreme Court of Appeal decision.
We discuss what happens if you don’t register despite being required to (it’s not a pretty picture), the grey areas surrounding the question of when you have to register and when you don’t, and the particular risks faced by property sellers.
Registration is by all accounts a time-consuming process with lots of red tape, so forward planning is essential here.
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We all have a duty to report crime to the police, and particularly when it happens in the workplace not doing so is likely to end badly for you.
But what if your report turns out to be wrong? Or just unprovable? Have you just laid yourself open to the risk of a substantial damages claim for defamation?
We answer these questions with reference to a recent case in which an employee was arrested on suspicion of fraudulently ordering R138k worth of iPads. Released without charge, he sued his employers for R1.6m and the Court listed the 3 things an accuser must prove to succeed in a defence that the crime report was reasonable.
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Of course the police deserve all our support in their efforts to rid South Africa of the scourge of illegal firearms – there’s an estimated 2.3m of them out there!
What happens though if, as a legal gun owner, you have for some reason allowed your firearms licence to expire? You may well have come under pressure from the police to surrender your firearm for destruction, on pain of arrest and prosecution for a very serious offence.
That’s an alarming quandary to be placed in and almost half a million other expired licence holders join you in the same boat. So it’s important that you are aware of the terms of the High Court interdict recently granted against SAPS. Read on for the details…
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