March 2025

This blog is co-authored by Jos Fogle, candidate attorney.

In February 2025 the High Court provided authority for the point that maintaining interim relief pending the final determination of a matter can be crucial to preventing harm to the public interest and ensuring the proper administration of justice.

In November 2024, the Johannesburg High Court

In January 2025 the High Court upheld the findings of the Financial Services Tribunal and found that section 14 of the Insurance Act of 2017 does not require the prior approval by the Prudential Authority of the appointment of a director. Prudential Standard GOI 4, which requires the Prudential Authority to “approve directors and auditors before they

The Prudential Authority imposed administrative penalties on two insurance companies for late notification of termination of director appointments, as required by section 16 of the Insurance Act of 2017. The penalties imposed were globular and not specific to the various alleged contraventions of the Act. In January 2025 the High Court upheld the findings of the

In 2024, the NRS Association published a Code of Practice for load reduction practices, system restoration practices, and critical load and essential load requirements under power system emergencies (link).

Anyone commercially interested in loadshedding and grid failure (such as non-life insurers) will gain from looking at the document, even if not the whole

This blog was co-authored by Akhona Kambule, Candidate Attorney.

In recent months, the idea of governments holding Bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset has been gaining significant attention. Countries, particularly in the Middle East and the United States, are exploring this shift, which could have major implications for global finance.

A strategic reserve traditionally consists

This blog was co-authored by Adrienne Hendricks, Trainee Associate and Adriaan Lourens, Candidate Attorney.

A company entered into a suretyship agreement with the respondent, who bound himself as surety to the company. The company claimed the outstanding sum plus interest from the surety.

The surety alleged that he did not recall having bound himself as

This blog was co-authored by Dashia Govinden, Candidate Attorney.

This case explores the tension between contractual non-variation clauses and public policy, and in what circumstance adherence to written agreements should yield to fairness and equity. It examined the enforceability of a non-variation clause and found that public policy did not justify deviating from the clearly