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(Note: If none of this applies to you please think of passing it on to anyone you know who may find it useful) In these hard times it is not always easy to keep up bond repayments, particularly if you are one of the many victims of the lockdown that have lost your job or your business. The worst thing

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Article courtesy of Law Dot News Property: Don’t Pay Double Commission! “… in certain circumstances the principal may be liable to pay commission to both agents where it is impossible to distinguish between the efforts of one agent and another in terms of causality or degrees of causation.” (Extract from judgment below) With many property sellers allowing multiple estate agenciesRead more

Article courtesy of Law Dot News Directors, Trustees: Can You Hold Your AGMs and General Meetings on Zoom? “O Wonder! …O Brave New World” (Shakespeare) Regrettably the pandemic still shows no sign of going away any time soon, and the social distancing it has brought to our “new normal” leaves companies with a dilemma. How can you comply – safelyRead more

Article courtesy of Law Dot News Buying a Business? Make Sure the Seller Publishes Notice of the Sale “The purpose of the legislature in enacting s 34(1) is to protect creditors by preventing traders who are in financial difficulty from disposing of their business assets to third parties who are not liable for the debts of the business, without dueRead more

Article courtesy of Law Dot News Options to Renew Leases – Risks for Landlords and Tenants “It is only where the enforcement of a contractual term would be so unfair, unreasonable or unjust so as to be contrary to public policy that a court may refuse to enforce it” (extract from first  judgment below) Leases often give tenants an optionRead more

Article courtesy of Law Dot News Protecting Yourself from SIM-swap Fraud Fraudulent SIM swaps were involved in around 13,300 reported digital banking fraud incidents across online and mobile banking and banking apps in 2019 (up 16% from 2018) and all indications is that the lockdown will see another spike in incidents. Read “What to do if you are a victimRead more

“Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined. The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate” (Andrew Carnegie, billionaire industrialist) Dollar billionaire Andrew Carnegie said it a century ago, and it still rings true – wise

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Article courtesy of Law Dot News “…it must be asked whether, but for the Covid-19 outbreak, the interruption or interference to the Applicant’s business would have occurred when the Lockdown Regulations were promulgated” (extract from the judgment below) It’s no surprise that our media has been awash with reports on the recent High Court judgment around a restaurant’s business interruptionRead more

Breaking any of our lockdown laws can be an expensive business, risking heavy penalties.  If you are accused of a contravention and offered the option of paying an “admission of guilt” fine to avoid a court appearance, beware! It may seem like the easy way out to pay up and put the whole thing behind you but it could land

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“…every landowner has a right to the lateral support and where subsidence or other destabilisation occurs, as a result of excavations on an adjacent property, the owner of the adjacent property will be liable in an action for damages irrespective of whether she was negligent or not.” (Extract from judgment below) It’s every homeowner’s nightmare – your property starts subsiding

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