'The minute you read something that you can’t understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.' (Will Rogers, cowboy...

' It’s important to remember your competitor is only one mouse click away' (Doug Warner) Your website, social media profiles and other...

'[The buyer] must in the circumstances take responsibility for her failure to protect herself against a known risk' (extract from...

'Externally, trustees cannot disagree. In the external sphere the Trust functions by virtue of its resolutions, which have to be...

'The first thing we do is, let’s kill all the lawyers.' (Shakespeare) Shakespeare must have had an unhappy experience or two with the...

'MTl's business clearly amounted to an unlawful ponzi-scheme i.e. a fraudulent investing scam promising high rates of return to investors...

How much will you be paying in income tax, petrol and sin taxes? Use Fin 24’s four-step Budget Calculator here to find out. The unchanged...

Load-shedding continues to plague us and our businesses, and when tenants are connected during power cuts to their landlord’s alternative...

'A bad neighbour is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.' (Hesiod, poet of Ancient Greece) Your neighbour’s business...

'The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.' (Napoleon Bonaparte) This October marks the 20th anniversary of the globally...

'He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed.' (Shakespeare) As our lives move...

'…data messages or electronic signatures are now recognised in our law as equivalent to a proper basis upon which a written contract can...

'MTl's business clearly amounted to an unlawful ponzi-scheme i.e. a fraudulent investing scam promising high rates of return to investors...

Whether you are forming a new company or buying shares in an existing one, a formal shareholders’ agreement, tailored to suit your...

'Administrative penalties and criminal proceedings do not serve the same purpose. The [one] is aimed at strengthening internal controls...

'Owning one's own business is an adventure – enjoy it every step of the way.' (From the SME Toolkit article referenced below) First,...

If you are emigrating, or perhaps just going overseas for an extended holiday or work contract, you may well leave behind some form of...