Every time you use a service, buy a product online, go to your doctor, pay your taxes, or enter into any contract or service request, you are required hand over some of your Personal Information. Even without your knowledge, information about you is being generated and processed by companies that you may have never interacted
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Whatever the type of commercial contract parties wish to execute, it will in all likelyhood contain certain key terms which can significantly shift where the risk between the parties lies, and as a result, these terms are almost always heavily negotiated. The following are a few of these terms which should be carefully considered on
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Too often dispute resolution clauses are treated as part of the boiler plate provisions and copy-pasted into agreements as an afterthought, or even left out altogether. Best case scenario the parties will never need to rely on these clauses. However, when they do, parties may find that the provisions of their dispute resolution clause were
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With new technologies and Apps around every corner, it is no surprise that the products and service offerings in which consumers and businesses are interested, often involve the accessing of software. As individual consumers we need to accept Terms and Conditions pertaining to the use of online purchasing sites, or the creation of a Facebook
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Last year, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies sparked a modern gold rush spurred on by stories of individual investors making millions in a short period from their investment in Bitcoin. The desire to get rich quickly encouraged every man on the street to own a virtual wallet to buy cryptocurrencies and saw the advent of many
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The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI) was signed into law in November 2013, but a commencement date for the Act has not yet been published. This is expected to happen in the first quarter of 2018. Once a commencement date for POPI has been published, businesses will only have 1 year to become fully
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One of the fundamental questions you have to answer before sitting down at the negotiation table is when to walk away from the negotiation. The strength of your alternative to the potential settlement or deal fuels your negotiation power. Knowing what this alternative is allows you to asses when to continue the negotiation and when
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All employment relationships, regardless of whether in the private or public sector, are subject to primary labour statutes setting out the basic rights and duties of employer and employee. These statutes include the Labour Relations Act 1995 (“LRA”), the Basic Conditions of Employment Act 1997 (“BCEA”), the Occupational Health & Safety Act 1993, the Compensation
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As family businesses grow the owner of a company will often place shares in the company into various trusts, for his children. Trusts, if properly administered will offer protection against insolvency and will also operate effectively to peg capital growth, which will be attractive to the owner. In most instances the owner as founder of
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You want to hire premises for your business. Your soon-to-be landlord has premises to let. It sounds simple, but in fact the interests of the tenant and the landlord are not as aligned as you might assume. This article highlights some of the things a prospective tenant should be looking out for in a typical
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