ENSafrica: Coronavirus (COVID-19) legal update
Coronavirus (COVID-19) issue 12 | 11 Aug 2020
issue 12
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Employers beware: POPIA and consequent liabilities for employers
11 Aug 2020
BY Era Gunning AND Suemeya Hanif
Non-compliance with the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 can have serious and unintended consequences for employers.
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Africa Business In Brief
issue 364 | 09 Aug 2020
issue 364
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Can our environmental laws protect our marine ecosystem from oil spills?
07 Aug 2020
Mauritius may be experiencing its first major oil spill and a potential ecological catastrophe following the running aground of the MV Wakashio on 25 July 2020.
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Africa regulatory ENSight
issue 7 of 2020 | 05 Aug 2020
issue 7 of 2020
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Transferring personal information outside of South Africa: POPIA and the implications of Schrems II
04 Aug 2020
BY Era Gunning
It is imperative for organisations to comply with POPIA when transferring personal information outside of South Africa.
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Mining Tax: Miners caught between a rock and proposed amendments
04 Aug 2020
BY Andries Myburgh AND Kristel van Rensburg
On 31 July 2020, National Treasury and SARS published the 2020 Draft TLAB and Draft TALAB, for public comment due by 31 August 2020.
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Genetically modified mice and the patent bargain
04 Aug 2020
BY Rowan Forster
This judgment is a useful reminder of what is sometimes referred to as the “patent bargain”, something that is at the very heart of the patent system.
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Booking.com – is it generic?
03 Aug 2020
BY Fae Hassan AND Manisha Bugwandeen-Doorasamy
Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the judgment in the recent case of United States Patent and Trademark Office v Booking.com that may in time be referred to as the “generic.com case”.
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Trade secrets: in the news again
03 Aug 2020
Recent news stories have once again shone a spotlight on the issue of trade secrets.
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Patents: Solving the problem of “card clash”
03 Aug 2020
Computer-implemented inventions and even business-related inventions can in many cases be patented, provided the invention has a technical character.
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A 101 guide to insolvency and business rescue in Uganda
03 Aug 2020
BY Donald Nyakairu AND Tracy Kakongi
Business rescue affords companies the opportunity to restructure their financial affairs and offers a more advantageous realisation of the company’s assets than would be achieved from liquidation.
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Kenya: update on the Data Commissioner’s appointment
03 Aug 2020
BY Mahesh Acharya
The Public Service Commission (the “Commission”), in compliance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act, 2019 (“DPA”), recently published a list of shortlisted candidates for the position of Data Commissioner.
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Africa Business In Brief
issue 363 | 02 Aug 2020
issue 363
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ICLG: Insurance & Reinsurance 2020
31 Jul 2020
South Africa | 2020
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