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Website of the Month: 3 Things the Most Productive People Do Every Day
“Here’s how to expand your mind’s abilities to get more done” Boosting productivity is one of the fundamentals of success in both our personal and our professional lives. “Get more done in less...
Property Owner and Body Corporate Liable After Child’s Electrocution?
A recent High Court decision saw both a sectional title unit owner and his cupboard contractor held liable for damages suffered by an 11-year-old boy electrocuted by a communal tap. The complex’s...
Don’t Accidentally Disqualify Your Chosen Heirs from Inheriting!
“Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.” (Ambrose Bierce) Your will (“Last Will and Testament”) will always be the keystone of your estate planning, and a recent High...
Exemption Clauses and Thieving Employees: Can You Sue (or Be Sued)?
"Where one of the parties wishes to be absolved either wholly or partially from an obligation or liability which would or could arise at common law under a contract of the kind which the parties...
What Can You Do When Someone Close to You Has No Control Over Their Spending?
“A prodigal is a person who, through some defect of character or will, squanders his or her assets with such abandon that he or she threatens to reduce himself or herself and/or her dependents to...
Your Website of the Month: The 9 Key Points of Making a Difficult Decision
“Avoiding a decision is itself a decision … probably the wrong one” Decisions, decisions – we spend our days making them, most of them minor but every now and then a really big, important one comes...