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Victims of sexual crime are often so deeply traumatised and intimidated that they either never report their abusers, or take decades to go to the police.
Until now, a 20 year limit on their right to prosecute certain sexual crimes has had the unfortunate effect of depriving many such victims – often now adults who were abused as children - of their right to seek justice against the perpetrators.
That’s all changed with a new High Court decision. We analyse the details and effect of this ground-breaking judgment.
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If you for whatever reason fail to renew your firearm licence on time, it will expire and you have (until now) had no alternative but to surrender your firearm to the police at risk of being prosecuted. Nor could you recover any value for the firearm.
The reason is that once the renewal period “90 day guillotine” falls, the Firearms Act as currently framed leaves you with no way to bring yourself “back within the parameters of the law”.
To your rescue comes a new High Court decision – read on for more …
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“The SVDP is meant for individuals and companies who have not in the past disclosed tax and exchange control defaults in relation to offshore assets” (SARS)
If you aren’t sure whether or not you should apply for the Special Voluntary Disclosure Programme (SVDP), take advice immediately.
Not only is the 31 August deadline upon us, but September will see the introduction of an “automatic exchange of tax information” between SARS and the revenue authorities of over 50 other countries (set to grow to 100 by September 2018).
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