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DTI gazettes the draft ICT charter

  • DLA Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
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  • South Africa
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  • June 15 2011

Some five years after the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) initiated discussions regarding the need for an ICT sector charter

New Companies Act and email signatures

  • DLA Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
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  • South Africa
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  • June 15 2011

The provisions of section 32 (4) of the new Companies Act, 2008, which addresses the use and publication of a company's name, provide for similar obligations to those imposed under the previous Companies Act, 1978, with the notable exception of the requirements for including directors' names and nationalities in business letters and business emails

Refusing to perform may repudiate a services contract

  • DLA Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
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  • South Africa, United Kingdom
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  • July 12 2011

In December 2010, the English High Court (the Court) handed down judgment in a dispute between De Beers UK Ltd (De Beers) and Atos Origin IT Services UK Ltd (Atos), jointly the "parties", concerning the repudiation of an information technology services contract

E-invoicing - easy , efficent and expeditious

  • DLA Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
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  • South Africa
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  • August 1 2012

Sending invoices electronically (e-invoicing) is on the rise, mainly as a result of this form of invoicing being easy, efficient, and cost effective

Email correspondence: enough to vary the terms of a contract

  • DLA Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
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  • South Africa
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  • August 7 2012

One of the most common terms of commercial contracts are the 'so called' non-variation clauses that provide that the terms of written contracts cannot be added to or varied unless such addition or variation is reduced to writing and signed by all parties to the contract