As an entrepreneur, there are a variety of legal steps that you must take to set up a legal and profitable business.

More and more people choose to live together, without getting married. There is a misconception that they are in a “common-law” marriage. That concept does not exist in South African law.

If you have a .com domain name, or other at-risk domain names like .net or .org, you are subject to US domestic laws and jurisdiction.

The long-awaited Second-Hand Goods Act will come into effect on April 1, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said on Wednesday.

Our courts have accepted that restraint of trade agreements are enforceable unless they are contrary to public policy because they impose an unreasonable restriction on a person's freedom to trade or work.

The Taxation Laws Amendment Act was promulgated on 10 January 2012. It contains significant changes which will have an impact on all disposals of property…

The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) recently held that a nominated beneficiary who predeceases the owner of an insurance policy has no right to any benefit of the policy at the time of her death.

The New Companies Act came into operation on 1 May 2011.  To start getting your company’s affairs in order, we recommend the following:

Consumers in the United States and Canada have sued Research in Motion for a days-long service outage on BlackBerry devices that rippled across the world earlier this month, reports Thomson Reuters.

In a recent judgment handed down by the Supreme Court of Appeal, the sellers of a property found themselves liable for estate agent's commission even though they had paid commission to another estate agent after they had sold their house in 2005.