“In the summertime, when the weather is high, you can stretch right up and touch the sky.” (Mungo Jerry) Summer’s here with its blue skies, happy holidaymakers from around the…
Carnegie LawOctober 28, 2025
Check All Emailed Bank Details for BEC (“Business Email Compromise”) Frauds
“…sending bank details by email is inherently dangerous, and so must either be avoided in favour of, for example, a…
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“Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.” (Ed Asner, actor with a great sense of humour!) A game-changing judgment from our Constitutional Court sets out new rules for…
Carnegie LawOctober 28, 2025
“A family name holds the music of generations – it’s the first inheritance we receive.” (Attributed to Irish poet-philosopher John O’Donohue) The Constitutional Court has just confirmed (with some significant…
Carnegie LawOctober 28, 2025
“Forewarned is forearmed.” (Wise old proverb) Government keeps assuring us that the long-delayed AARTO (Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences) system will finally begin its full national rollout on 1…
Carnegie LawOctober 28, 2025
“Don’t wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait.” (Will Rogers) Spring is in the air and, as the annual uptick in property sales kicks in, let’s address…
Carnegie LawSeptember 25, 2025
“If you’re flogging a dead horse, make sure you’re not riding it.” (Josh Stern) Creditors and company directors alike need to know how best to deal with a company in…
Carnegie LawSeptember 25, 2025
“This is a strategy of wearing down the plaintiff by tenaciously fighting anything the plaintiff presents by whatever means possible and appealing every ruling favourable to the plaintiff. Here, the…
Carnegie LawSeptember 25, 2025
“If you suspect deceit, hit delete!” (Online cybersecurity slogan) October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a good time to note that as cybercrime continues to grow, more and more businesses and…
Carnegie LawSeptember 25, 2025
“All that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity.” (William Shakespeare, in Hamlet) Master’s Office records suggest that less than a third of us leave behind a will when…
Carnegie LawAugust 26, 2025
“You aren’t buying a house, you’re buying a lifestyle.” (Anon) As more and more residential properties are subdivided and developed, an increasing number of homes are effectively cut off from…
Carnegie LawAugust 26, 2025
“Dance like no one is watching, but text, post, and email like it will be read in court one day.” (Anon) When can the target of rude comments and insults…
Carnegie LawAugust 26, 2025
“There’s no trust, no faith, no honesty in men.” (William Shakespeare, in Romeo and Juliet) A recent Labour Court decision is a stark reminder to employees that an employment relationship…
Carnegie LawAugust 26, 2025
“Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides.” (William Shakespeare, in King Lear) A recent High Court judgment confirms, yet again, that if a property seller knows about a hidden defect…
Carnegie LawJuly 28, 2025
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” (C.S. Lewis) Divorce is traumatic, to the extent that it’s widely…
Carnegie LawJuly 28, 2025
“Diplomats operate through deadlock, which is the way by which two sides can test each other’s determination.” (Henry Kissinger) Running a business with a partner can work brilliantly – until…
Carnegie LawJuly 28, 2025
“You must take reasonable care to avoid acts or omissions which you can reasonably foresee would be likely to injure your neighbour.” (Lord Atkin in the groundbreaking 1932 House of…
Carnegie LawJuly 28, 2025
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” (Douglas Adams in The Salmon of Doubt) Contracts often contain suspensive conditions, a common example being…
Carnegie LawJune 25, 2025
“In Africa there is a concept known as ‘ubuntu’ – the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of others.” (Nelson Mandela) International Nelson Mandela Day is…
Carnegie LawJune 25, 2025
“When cognitive capacities are the focus, the 70s are the new 50s.” (IMF) Fake news articles suggesting that South Africa was implementing a new standard retirement age policy, supposedly from…
Carnegie LawJune 25, 2025
“I charge you by the law.” (William Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice) Victims of crime are entitled to see the perpetrators brought to justice. Feeling that the justice system…
Carnegie LawJune 25, 2025