The new UK Arbitration Act modernises the Arbitration Act of 1996 and will come into force on a date to be appointed. 

Companies doing business or arbitrating subject to the laws of England should familiarise themselves with the key reforms…

In December 2024 the English high court held that a clause requiring the parties to use “reasonable endeavours” to agree a binding process for an expert determination to value and divide disputed businesses was an unenforceable agreement to agree.

The…

In March 2025, the UK Court of Appeal found that a provision in a warehousekeeper’s policy that it was a condition precedent to the insurer’s liability that during the currency of the policy the warehousekeeper “continuously trades under the conditions…

In March 2025 a Georgia USA court held that a professional indemnity insurer had no duty to defend nor indemnify an orthopaedic surgery centre and one of its surgeons against a medical malpractice claim for failed spinal surgery because the…

This blog was co-authored by Caroline Cotton, Candidate Attorney.

Employers to put in place “adequate procedures” to prevent corruption

It has been almost one year since the establishment of the offence of failing to prevent corruption in section 34A of…

The Companies Act, 2008 (Act) makes provision for shareholders to remove directors by ordinary resolution. Although the Act requires that notice of such a decision be given to the affected directors, and that the affected director may make representations at…

This blog was co-authored by Caroline Cotton, Candidate Attorney.

On 7 March 2025 the Minister of Employment and Labour announced an increase in the annual earnings threshold from R254 371,67 to R261 748,45. The increase is in effect from 1…