Can a firearms dealer store firearms for another dealer?
11 Jul 2023
BY Aslam Moosajee AND Inathi Mpapa
By limiting the movement of firearms between traders, the National Commissioner and Police Services ought to be in a better position to track stolen firearms and further hold traders responsible for any negligence.
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Interest rate seemed excessively high? Court rules that borrowers are still liable to pay
11 Jul 2023
BY Aslam Moosajee AND Olonathando Nxumalo
Simply because an interest rate charged by a lender may at first blush appear excessive is not sufficient to prove that the interest rate is usurious. There is also no fixed rate that can be used as a standard to measure a usurious interest rate.
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Draft Rehabilitation, Reintegration and Return-to-Work Regulations (COIDA): what does this mean for incapacity management?
11 Jul 2023
BY Balindile Shezi AND Reitumetse Sebatana
Employers may not dismiss or alter the t&c's of employment of occupationally injured or diseased employees without first facilitating the rehabilitation, reintegration and return-to-work & reporting the outcome to the authorities in writing.
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TMT ENSight | issue 15
11 Jul 2023
Welcome to the 15th issue of ENSafrica's TMT ENSight, focusing on topics, news and analysis of novel and interesting developments in the technology, media and telecommunications space.
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ESG ENSights in Namibia
ENS | 10 Jul 2023
Explore a thought-provoking series of articles on Environmental, Social and Governance developments in Namibia.
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Africa Business In Brief
issue 504 | 09 Jul 2023
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ENSafrica's IP team secures stellar rankings from Managing IP and IAM Patent 1000 2023
04 Jul 2023
ENSafrica's IP team has been given outstanding recognition by top ranking agencies Managing IP (“MIP”) and the IAM Patent 1000
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Copyright in the USA and South Africa
04 Jul 2023
We look at the latest copyright developments in South Africa and the USA.
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The iCollege case: trade mark infringement and disclaimers
04 Jul 2023
As anyone who is involved in South African trade mark law knows, the starting point in any SA trade mark judgment is invariably the almost 40-year-old case of Plascon-Evans Paints Ltd v Van Riebeeck Paints (Pty) Ltd.
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Break the law at your peril…you could be sued for unlawful competition
04 Jul 2023
Proprietors should therefore always seek professional advice to make sure that not only are they not infringing another party’s intellectual property rights, but that they are also complying with any applicable labelling requirements.
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Jack Daniel's and Bad Spaniels
04 Jul 2023
BY Liézal Mostert
The US Supreme Court recently handed down its judgment in a trade mark infringement case involving the Jack Daniel’s trade mark, Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc. v VIP Products LLC. The case has certainly made the news.
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Cape Cookies: a cracker of a case
04 Jul 2023
BY Gaelyn Scott
In this article, we discuss a significant trade mark judgment of the South African Supreme Court of Appeal National Brands Limited v Cape Cookies CC and Another.
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POPIA enters the terrible twos
04 Jul 2023
BY Ridwaan Boda , Era Gunning AND Priyanka Raath
Whatever your current POPIA practices look like, it is important to remember that privacy compliance is an ongoing exercise. This means ongoing monitoring, review, and adaptating your compliance measures to evolving privacy requirements.
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South Africa's Electronic Communications Amendment Bill, 2022 explores spectrum sharing, licensing and competition
04 Jul 2023
BY Wilmari Strachan AND Naledi Ramoabi
The Bill proposes a number of significant changes which will have a major impact on the telecommunications regulatory landscape in SA. It is still too early to predict the extent to which all the proposed amendments will eventually become law.
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Should South Africa mind the (gender pay) gap?
04 Jul 2023
BY Lauren Salt
For at least the last decade, there has been a global focus on gender pay parity and gender pay gap transparency with a number of countries introducing gender pay audit and/or reporting requirements.
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