You are responsible for your information. It is important to understand how your information is being used.
LinkedIn updated their privacy policy and user agreement on 23 October 2014. It is easier to read and understand in comparison to earlier versions. If you read through the policy it will give you an understanding of the
We often hear complaints about the additional red tape that compliance with the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (POPI) will impose on business. Although compliance will be a continual process, it should not be viewed as an impractical or overly burdensome task. POPI is not aimed at restricting business and should be applied practically.
An October 2014 supreme court of appeal decision has confirmed two well established principles of public procurement and administrative law review:
The Legal Proceedings against Certain Organs of State Act, 2002 requires that notice must be given to any organ of state which is to be sued within six months from the date on which the ‘debt’ becomes due. This law relates only to a damages claim. The damages claim may be a delictual, contractual or
In English law an insured who uses a fraudulent device to promote an otherwise valid claim forfeits the claim.
This is not the position in South African law. Unless there is an appropriately worded fraud clause an insured who embellishes their claim with a lie where it is in all other respects valid will not
Where a hearing must take place (in this case to terminate soldiers’ employment) it is necessary but not sufficient to inform the subject of the complaint of the nature of the alleged misconduct and to ask for representations in regard to whether the conduct occurred and constituted misconduct and what the appropriate sanction is.
The
Regulation 6.6 of the Short-term Insurance Act requires an insurer to give notice to the Financial Services Board (FSB) 60 days before the termination date of a binder agreement (the form of the notice is in Annexure A of Directive 151).
Directive 151 mistakenly stipulates that notice must be given 40 days before the termination
We have published a handy ten things to know about asset management in South Africa.
We look briefly at how asset managers and alternative fund managers get licensed, how foreign funds get registered, how they can be marketed in our country, the new exchange control dispensation for private equity funds introduced by the South
A USA court excused the insurer from paying claims by a municipality over gas leaks into homes because the policy required notification “as soon as practicable”. Notice for three claims after 58 days, one year and 31 months after the respective events was not proper notice under the policy.
Insurers should check their exclusions relating to claims for penalties if they do not want to pay civil penalties. This is especially important in this age of major fines by regulators.
A Louisiana court has obliged an insurer to cover $3.5 million in civil penalties imposed on an energy company for violations of the USA