In May 2025 the High Court declared that the National Energy Regulator has no authority to require licences under the Gas Act of 2001 for upstream gas production activities authorised under a valid production right issued in terms of the
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Public-sector employment relationships are generally not subject to PAJA
On 12 March 2025, a High Court judgment ruled that the decision of a municipality to terminate the acting appointment of its Director of Community Services amounted to administrative action that is subject to review in terms of the Promotion
Should dust be an excluded pollutant in insurance policies?
In the UK there is legislation regarding exposure to risks to health and safety by third parties from the operations of a business. Legislation, like the South African Occupational Health and Safety Act, protects employees against exposure to substances hazardous
Delaying a decision to avoid an insurance policy not a waiver (Canada)
In a short May 2025 judgment the Ontario Appeal Court dismissed an appeal where the insured claimed that the underwriters had delayed the exercise of its rights to void the 2015 policy and that renewing the policy amounted to a
Another Instance of Misleading the Court with Artificial Intelligence (UK)
Another cautionary tale on the perils of uncritical reliance on generative artificial intelligence (AI) arrived in the English High Court in April 2025. The court found a barrister and a firm of solicitors responsible for including fictitious case citations in
Uncertain prospects of a principal debt being paid is no defence for a surety
This blog was co-authored by Adrienne Hendricks, Trainee Associate and Adriaan Lourens, Candidate Attorney.
In April 2025 the High Court dealt with a bank’s claim for payment of R15 million, plus interest and costs, brought against the surety of a
Defamation in the Digital Age: Freedom of Speech has Limits
In April 2025, the High Court granted a final order restraining the two former associates of the applicant, part of a major financial group, from publishing or distributing defamatory statements about the company and its employees on social media or
Cover for a medical incident to any one person does not refer to all patients falling within a single cause (US)
Where a hospital had inadequate surgical-sterilisation procedures affecting thousands of patients, a US Court of Appeals interpreted the hospital’s medical malpractice excess of loss policies, which covered medical incidents in furnishing services to any one patient, as indemnifying per patient,
UK’s Solicitors Regulatory Authority Authorises “first purely AI-based firm”
This week, the UK’s Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) announced it has granted authorisation to Garfield.Law Ltd as the first Alternative Business Structure permitted to deliver regulated legal services directly via artificial intelligence (AI).
Unlike traditional firms (a good portion of
A lesson for insureds: Court agrees with insurer’s repudiation of a claim due to false information provided by insured
This blog is co-authored by Raaiqhah Akoo, a candidate attorney.
In March 2025 the High Court decided that the repudiation by an insurer of a claim for indemnification under an insurance policy was lawful due to the insured breaching the