The Supreme Court of Appeal has held that the eThekwini Municipality had a legal duty to supervise and control access to a water slide built for children and situated in a pool on the Durban beachfront Promenade.
A mother had taken her son for a day by the sea. The son joined one of many
An injury caused by or sustained in an ‘accident’ under an insurance policy connotes an accident sustained in circumstances where the assured neither intended nor expected to suffer the injury. The test is a subjective one. Once it is established on a prima facie basis that the insured did not intend or expect to suffer
With Bitcoin’s popularity and value growing significantly, many wonder how cryptocurrencies will be treated by the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and other regulators.
Bitcoin is one of hundreds of different cryptocurrencies in existence. Cryptocurrencies are unregulated, decentralised digital currencies which can be bought, sold and traded for fiat money or goods and services.
When an engineering company sought to recover under a contractors bond (construction guarantee) for unpaid fees for engineering services rendered, a court held that a bond which provided protection for entities that have ‘performed labour or furnished materials in the prosecution of the work’ did not include the engineer’s professional engineering services which were not