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Navigating the fintech regulatory landscape
Navigating the fintech regulatory landscape

The fintech industry is paving the way for financial institutions to reach a broader customer base and financial inclusion in the country.

Constitutional Court changes the Divorce Act
Constitutional Court changes the Divorce Act

The Constitutional Court declared that Section 7(3)(a) of the Divorce Act is inconsistent with the Constitution.

Balancing AI and human judgment: Ethical considerations in the legal profession
Balancing AI and human judgment: Ethical considerations in the legal profession

As the pressures of the legal profession intensify, leading to increased burnout rates and mental health challenges, AI seems like an attractive solution to lessen the workload.

Claiming for road accidents caused by poor road conditions
Claiming for road accidents caused by poor road conditions

Pothole-related accident claims have soared by 15% year-on-year. Of these claims, in excess of 75% of vehicles were rendered inoperable.

Can you sue Eskom for damage to your appliances during loadshedding?
Can you sue Eskom for damage to your appliances during loadshedding?

To succeed with a contractual claim against Eskom, you will need to prove that loadshedding amounts to negligent conduct from Eskom.

Death and taxes – You can’t escape either
Death and taxes – You can’t escape either

Understanding estate tax in South Africa: A comprehensive guide and what to expect as a beneficiary.

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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

– Oscar Wilde

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

– Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)

Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion.

-Blake,William

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

– Mark Twain

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

– Oscar Wilde

The trouble with law is lawyers.

– Clarence S. Darrow (1857-1938) American lawyer

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

– Immanuel Kant

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

– Robert Frost

Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

– Hart Pomerantz

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

– Edmund Burke (1729-1797) British political writer.

The law is reason, free from passion.

– Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.

He who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.

– Proverb

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

– Oscar Wilde

The trouble with law is lawyers.

– Clarence S. Darrow (1857-1938) American lawyer

Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

-Bentham Jeremy

The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.

– Will Rogers

I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

– Voltaire

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

– Sophocles

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

– Oscar Wilde

The trouble with law is lawyers

Clarence S. Darrow (1857-1938) American lawyer

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

– Khalil Gibran

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.

– Mark Twain

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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