Jonathan Ripley-Evans
Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
Articles
Surrogacy - too much to bear?
South Africa - January 24 2018 Surrogacy - a word recently dragged kicking and screaming into the limelight by the pop-couple Kardashian-West. What caused the outcry? Kim’s…
South Africa adopts International Arbitration Bill: A new dawn for the settlement of international commercial disputes in Africa
Africa, South Africa - October 25 2017 The Bill will align the South African International Arbitration Law with international best practice and should go a long way to establish South…
Timothy Baker, Jackwell Feris, Tim Fletcher, Thabile Fuhrmann
Howzat umpire?! Or is it arbitrator?
South Africa - September 27 2017 "We cannot afford to arbitrate before three arbitrators! The amount in dispute doesn't justify such costs." Words uttered all too often in the modern…
Time [for the] bar
South Africa - September 20 2017 Prescribed; time barred; extinguished: all music to the ears of a defendant. If not prosecuted, civil claims normally prescribe within three years…
We repeat - demand loans prescribe after three years - OUCH!
South Africa - September 14 2017 You may recall our previous alert where we discussed the decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in Trinity Asset Management. We thought this…
