In a January 2025 judgment, the High Court dealt with the issue of professional negligence and prescription in case which revolved around a claim for damages by the claimant, who alleged that the defendant, a firm of attorneys, was negligent
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This week’s podcast episode: Regulating Bank Reputation Risk
Today’s podcast show features a discussion with Julie Andersen Hill about her law review article titled “Regulating Bank Reputation Risk”, 54 GA. L. Rev. 523 (2023). Professor Hill is the Dean and Wyoming Excellence Chair of the University…
Announcing Our Partnership with SimpleLaw
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Republicans renew efforts to repeal Section 1071
Republicans on Capitol Hill are seeking to repeal a section of the Dodd-Frank Act that requires financial institutions to report information contained in loan applications submitted by women-owned, minority-owned and LGBTQI+-owned small businesses.
“My bill seeks to eliminate costly regulatory…
The False Claims Act in 2024: A Government Enforcement Update
Walgreens Boots Alliance Hit with Opioid-Related Securities Suit

The filing of Opioid-related securities litigation is not a new development; indeed, more than six years ago, I published a post in which I noted the outbreak at the time of a number of opioid-related securities suits against opioid drug…
Upholding “Fit and Proper” Standards
This blog was co-authored by Yuveshen Naidoo, Candidate Attorney.
On 23 December 2024, the Financial Services Tribunal upheld an FSP’s decision to debar its representative in terms of section 14(1) of the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act, 2002 (FAIS…
A preamble may affect the interpretation of a contract
Previous decisions suggesting that a preamble does not affect the interpretation of a contract are no longer correct in the light of the modern approach to interpretation of contracts which gives consideration to the language used, the context and the…
Unfettered contractual discretion may be fettered by public policy and good faith
In late January 2025, in the course of deciding whether a contractual decision to vary a contract had to be exercised in good faith, with reasonable judgment and without arbitrariness (a more detailed blog will be found here) the…
Exercise of contractual discretion must be reasonable and in good faith
In late January 2025 the Supreme Court of Appeal held that, in circumstances where a contractual discretion is to be exercised impacting on the counterparty’s performance, the discretion must be exercised in good faith, with reasonable judgment, and without arbitrariness…