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19 June 2013
                       
 
 
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12 Apr 2013
 
 
Recent developments in South African class action litigation
WERKSMANS ATTORNEYS
The advent of amendments to the Competition Act No. 89 of 1998 has, at least for one of those chapters, being chapter 4A dealing with market inquiries become a reality. Download the full article...
 
 
09 Apr 2013
 
Healthcare sector cautioned
WERKSMANS ATTORNEYS
The advent of amendments to the Competition Act No. 89 of 1998 has, at least for one of those chapters, being chapter 4A dealing with market inquiries become a reality. Section 6 of the Competition...
 
 
20 Mar 2013
 
Competition Law: Healthcare sector cautioned
WERKSMANS ATTORNEYS
The Competition Commission has been provided with formal powers to conduct market inquiries from the 1st of April 2013, following the recent promulgation of Section 6 of the Competition Amendment...
 
 
18 Dec 2012
 
Desperately seeking reason
WERKSMANS ATTORNEYS
Much has been said about the costs of the proposed national health insurance scheme for South Africa. In fact, the media, of late, has been replete with reports and stories about the costs that...
 
 
05 Sep 2012
 
You can run, but you can’t hide
WERKSMANS ATTORNEYS
A recent judgment in the North Gauteng High Court, Pretoria has caused more than ripples amongst the mining community. The ruling has the effect of imposing liabilities in terms of directives...
 
 
07 Jun 2012
 
Patients' rights: The achilles heel of the patient system? An Indian perspective for South Africa
WERKSMANS ATTORNEYS
Currently there is litigation between a numbers of parties concerning the application of a patent in respect of a cancer medicine in South Africa. The parties concerned include Sanofi Aventis SA...
 
 
03 Apr 2012
 
 
 
Millennium development goals: the what, the who and the how
WERKSMANS ATTORNEYS
The Millennium Development Goals or MDGs were identified by the World Health Organisation in terms of the Millennium Declaration signed by 189 countries in 2000. In its publication concerning the...
 
 
01 Feb 2012
 
 
 
Buying the eye of the beholder: the case for selling organs
WERKSMANS ATTORNEYS
Werksmans Attorneys director Neil Kirby argues that justification for the sale and purchase of human organs may be found in human rights law.
 
 
31 Jan 2012
 
 
 
Direct marketing: unsolicited electronic communication
WERKSMANS ATTORNEYS
According to directors Ina Meiring, Neil Kirby and Tammy Bortz of Werksmans Attorneys, the Protection of Personal Information Bill is one of a number of laws regulating unsolicited electronic...
 
 
13 Dec 2011
 
The Protection of Personal Information Bill: Showing Me, Showing You
WERKSMANS
Werksmans director Neil Kirby says that while media attention focuses on the Secrecy Act, the Protection of Personal Information Bill is going almost unnoticed.
 
 
31 Oct 2011
 
 
 
Regulating everything medical
WERKSMANS
Werksmans director Neil Kirby reviews the draft regulations relating to medical devices and complementary medicines recently released by the Department of Health in consultation with the Medicines...
 
 
03 Oct 2011
 
 
 
Quality of care in the National Health Insurance debate
WERKSMANS ATTORNEYS
The current national health debate focuses on providing access to healthcare. However, director Neil Kirby says the quality of healthcare the system provides access to, is key to its success.
 
 
02 Sep 2011
 
 
 
Healthcare sans frontiers?
WERKSMANS
The policy on national health insurance was recently published for public comment. Because it lacks particularly, Werksmans Attorneys director Neil Kirby says it is difficult to provide meaningful...
 
 
01 Sep 2011
 
 
 
Clearly clear?
WERKSMANS
The rise of plain and understandable language is upon us. That's according to director Neil Kirby, director at Werksmans Attorneys, who says that this revolution has its origins the Consumer...
 
 
04 Mar 2011
 
 
 
We can’t: American developments in social health insurance
WERKSMANS ATTORNEYS
Recent developments in the United States of America may support the argument that a South African national health insurance scheme is unconstitutional.
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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