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SAFM Market Update: Cross Trainer Enters Business Rescue
Dr. Eric Levenstein, Director and Head of our Insolvency & Business Rescue practice area, had a discussion with Jimmy Moyaha of SAFM about the markets reaction to Cross Trainer going under business rescue and the current status of the business rescue mechanism in South Africa.
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Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Commission announces investigations of trusts used in B-BBEE ownership structures
INTRODUCTION On 7 August 2017, the B-BBEE Commission announced that it had initiated 17 investigations for possible contraventions of [...]
Understatement penalties: what is a bona fide inadvertent error?
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The LAC rules on the TES deeming provision
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The validity of automatic termination clauses in contracts of employment
ISSUE(S) Whether the employee was unfairly dismissed after his appointment letter was automatically terminated because of a provision stating [...]
Holding onto land: the regulation of Agricultural Land Holdings Bill
INTRODUCTION During the 2016 State of the Nation Address, the president of the Republic of South Africa first announced [...]
And now for something completely different (or not?)
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