This edition of our weekly Legal Update provides a brief selection from our comprehensive, subscription-only newsletters.
Highlights include:
Government Gazette notices about issues such as the commencement of the Pension Funds Amendment Act 31 of 2024 on 1 September 2024, the transfer of state-owned enterprises to line ministries and the division of powers and functions between the Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources and the Minister of Electricity and Energy.
Articles on topics such as data transfer agreements for health research, levy collections in community schemes and mining rights.
Case Law |
View summaries of the judgments handed down by the Constitutional Court and Supreme Court of Appeal during August 2024 here.
New Legislation |
A list of new South African Acts gazetted during 2022 and 2024 is available here.
Attorney Alert: 2 September 2024 |
This week’s edition includes Government Gazette notices about the transfer of state-owned enterprises to line ministries and the division of powers and functions between the Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources and the Minister of Electricity and Energy.
The Pension Funds Amendment Act 31 of 2024 came into operation on 1 September 2024 (Proc175 GG 51122 p3 26Aug2024).
Also featured in this edition are several articles such as:
Meintjes, Gaby. AI in the rainbow nation: South Africa’s evolving policy arc. – 2024 Aug 30 Fairbridges Wertheim Becker
Paddock, Graham. Why levy collection is even more important than you think. – 2024 19(8) Paddocks Press
Penfold, Glenn and Hoexter, Cora. The treatment of facts in administrative-law review. – 2024 141(3) South African Law Journal p496
Smith, Samantha. 12 years of acrimony: A cautionary tale for couples in the process of divorcing. [LS v JS (23967/2012) [2024] ZAGPJHC 653 (2 August 2024)] – 2024 Aug 28 STBB
Venter, Zelda. Wits has to pay millions after student fell from theatre roof. [Nordmann v University of the Witwatersrand (2019/39597) [2024] ZAGPJHC 757 (26 July 2024)] – 2024 Aug 27 Pretoria News
For more highlights from the month of August, click here.
Employment and Labour Law Alert: 2 September 2024 |
This week’s edition includes the following Government Gazette notices:
Government Employees Pension Law 21 of 1996: Amendment of the Rules of the Government Employees Pension Law. – GN5168 GG 51139 p3 30Aug2024
Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act 78 of 1973: Declaration of Controlled Mines and Risk Work. – GN5166 GG 51137 p3 30Aug2024
Also included are references to the following Labour Court judgments:
Khumalo and Others v Gauteng Department of Economic Development (JS89/18) [2024] ZALCJHB 317 (20 June 2024)
Shoprite Checkers (Pty) Ltd v Makaloi and Others (PR98/23) [2024] ZALCPE 36 (26 August 2024)
Sibanyoni v Speaker of the City of Mbombela and Others (J 828/2024) [2024] ZALCJHB 309 (19 August 2024)
South African Weather Service v Ntsangwane and Others (JR2614/21) [2024] ZALCJHB 315 (15 August 2024)
For more highlights from the month of August, click here.
Insurance Law Alert: 3 September 2024 |
This week’s edition contains the Government Gazette notice on the Amendment of the Rules of the Government Employees Pension Law (GN5168 GG 51139 p3 30Aug2024) in terms of the Government Employees Pension Law 21 of 1996, s 29.
The following summaries of the Council for Medical Schemes Registrar’s rulings are included:
The following Financial Services Tribunal decision is included:
For more highlights from the month of August, click here.
Health Law Alert: 4 September 2024 |
Wednesday's edition contains references to various articles dealing with recent High Court judgments, such as:
Kriegler, Lisa. High Court agrees with HPCSA’s decision to dismiss patient’s complaint. [Dercksen v Health Professions Council of South Africa and Another (A13/2024) [2024] ZAGPPHC 782 (8 August 2024)] – 2024 Aug 28 Norton Rose Fulbright: Financial Institutions Legal Snapshot
Venter, Zelda. Pencil in boy’s left eye will cost education department R2.5m. [GC obo Minor Child v Member of the Executive Council for Education: Gauteng (09548/2016) [2024] ZAGPJHC 797 (12 August 2024)] – 2024 Sep 3 Pretoria News
Also featured are the following summaries of the Council for Medical Schemes Registrar’s rulings:
The following journal articles are also included:
Choonara, Yaasirah Mohomed. Enhancing diabetic foot management: Advocating for independent prescribing rights for podiatrists in South Africa. – 2024 (60) The Foot
Swales, Lee; Gooden, Amy and Thaldar, Donrich. The anatomy of a data transfer agreement for health research. – 2024 (15) Frontiers in Pharmacology
For more highlights from the month of August, click here.
Energy Law Alert: 5 September 2024 |
This week’s edition includes the Government Gazette notice regarding the division of powers and functions between the Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources and the Minister of Electricity and Energy.
The Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources has invited comments on his intention to conduct an investigation to establish the subsurface geology and its structure as it relates to petroleum, on or under land, in the south-central Karoo Basin (GN5167 GG 51138 p3 30Aug2024).
The following article is also included:
Chaplin, Vivien and Shongwe, Sandile. The overlapping rights saga continues: Clarifying the first in time, first in right principle and whether a prospecting right is a prerequisite to an application for a mining right. – 2024 Aug 29 Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
For more highlights from the month of August, click here.
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Date posted: 6 September 2024
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