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20 May 2013
                       
 
 
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29 Apr 2013
 
 
Shape Trade Marks – Lindt fails to pull a rabbit out of the hat
ADAMS & ADAMS
In terms of the South African Trade Marks Act, a shape is capable of registration as a trade mark, provided that the shape meets the same criteria for registrability as any other trade mark,...
 
 
15 Apr 2013
 
The U-care case: An opportunity lost
Schoeman Attorneys
Most parts of the developed and developing world felt the effects of the banking crisis of 2007/2008 to some degree or another. Numerous reasons have since been offered in explanation for what was...
 
 
09 Jan 2013
 
Avoid the pitfalls of losing privilege
WEBBER WENTZEL
In the recent, and as yet unreported, decision of UAP Agrochemicals KZN (Pty) Ltd & another v Nefic Estates (Pty) Ltd Case no: AR515/11, by the full bench of the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in...
 
 
03 Aug 2012
 
Widespread diesel rebate audits in mining sector
Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
SARS is at the moment carrying out wide-spread diesel rebate audits in the mining sector. On completion of such an audit the mining company usually receives a 'Letter of audit findings' to which it...
 
 
30 Jan 2012
 
When can SARS recharacterise contractual arrangements for taxation purposes?
CLIFFE DEKKER HOFMEYR
Tax planning structures normally involve multiple parties. Sometimes the individuals and/or legal entities involved are inter-connected. The tax benefits generated through such structures, almost...
 
 
28 Sep 2011
 
Onerous Obligations placed on the Mining Industry - Implications of the decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal in the Maccsand and Swartland cases
WEBBER WENTZEL
The Supreme Court of Appeal ("SCA") recently tackled the debate around the issue of whether it was sufficient to merely be the holder of a mining right in terms of the Mineral and Petroleum...
 
 
12 Sep 2011
 
Mining rehabilitation funds - what if they are no longer needed? Thoughts on Section 37A of the Income Tax Act
BOWMAN GILFILLAN
Mining companies are obliged to perform environmental rehabilitation of mining sites upon the decommissioning or termination of mining activities. Section 37A of the Income Tax Act, 62 of 1968...
 
 
22 Jun 2011
 
Common sense prevails in personal injury claims
NORTON ROSE SOUTH AFRICA
Three 2010 judgments illustrate the courts’ common sense approach to personal injury claims.
 
 
04 Jun 2010
 
Finance Law Update: June 2010 (No 2)
JURGENS BEZUIDENHOUT
The National Treasury has published a draft Taxation Laws Amendment Bill 2010 together with a draft Explanatory Memorandum dealing with proposed amendments to the Income Tax Act, 1962.
 
 
20 Apr 2010
 
 
 
Advancing consumer rights: A forthcoming attraction?
WERKSMANS
It sounds like the start of a joke: where is the most dangerous place in a supermarket? In a recent judgment by the Supreme Court of Appeal in Checkers Supermarket v Lindsay 2009 (4) SA 459 (SCA) /...
 
 
06 Oct 2009
 
Cope: Statement by Luzelle Adams, Congress of the People MP, on the Human Rights Commission (06/10/2009)
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South Africa cannot afford to have fraudsters as human rights commissioners nor can it afford to have people with track records that will ensure that ordinary South Africans have no confidence...

 
 
 
                       
 
 
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