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The controversial Expropriation Bill has been extensively opposed since its introduction in 2015. In consequence, it has been subject to various amendments culminating in the Expropriation Bill, 2020 (the Bill).

This is particularly true in the built environment industry, where a Contractor’s reputation is just as important as his track record.

Many have done it. Many are doing it. All over the world, a South African gospel song has the world singing and dancing through a pandemic! “Jerusalema”

COX Yeats Attorneys – one of KZN’s largest locally-based legal practices – boldly expanded its footprint nationally on March 1, 2020 by opening a Johannesburg office in Sandton. This will now enable the firm to offer a quality professional service to businesses based in Gauteng, alongside existing Johannesburg and KwaZulu-Natal clients.

In the 2020 PMR.africa annual provincial survey assessing the top legal firms in province, a random, provincial sample of CEOs, MDs, business owners, company directors and managers and government officials based in the KwaZulu-Natal Province rated the legal firms.

Every worker has the Constitutionally entrenched right to strike in terms of section 3(2)(c) of the Bill of Rights. The notion of a requirement in law for unions to conduct a ballot of its members, before embarking on strike action, has always been contentious.

In response to a plea for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for the matric students of Amaoti No 3 Secondary School, Cox Yeats rose to the occasion.

Durban - Constitutional lawyers and legal experts have polarised views on the Gauteng High Court judgment that declares some level 4 and 3 lockdown regulations invalid, with some describing it as “scathing” and a “symbolic victory” for constitutional democracy, and others decrying it as “lacking cogency”.

In the 2020 PMR.africa annual provincial survey assessing the top legal firms in province, a random, provincial sample of CEO’s, MD’s, business owners, company directors and managers and government officials based in the KwaZulu-Natal Province rated the legal firms.

Present indications are that the lockdown may end at the end of April 2020, with a staggered re-integration for construction.

In these difficult times of COVID-19, you might need to prepare for a situation where a loved one or business partner is unable to attend to their own affairs, possibly because they are in quarantine, or have been hospitalised, or are maintaining strict social distancing.

On Monday 23 March 2020, the President of the Republic of South Africa announced a nation-wide lockdown for 21 days in order to deal with the Covid-19 outbreak in the country.

Cox Yeats Attorneys has seen the need to expand its footprint nationally, to service existing KwaZulu-Natal and Johannesburg clients with businesses based in Gauteng. This need resulted in KZN’s largest locally based legal practice, opening a Johannesburg office in Sandton on 1 March 2020. The law firm, with its main office located in Umhlanga, Durban, operates locally, nationally and internationally, offering expertise and specialisation in the commercial and personal legal fields.

Cox Yeats Attorneys has seen the need to expand its foot-print nationally, to service existing KwaZulu-Natal and Johannes-burg clients with businesses based in Gauteng.

The Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has already had extreme impacts across the globe including South Africa. The impending lockdown we all face will result in construction sites being shut down.

Covid-19 or what is better known as the coronavirus which started in Wuhan, China in December 2019 hit our South African shores in March 2020, with the first confirmed case in KwaZulu-Natal.

KWAZULU-NATAL’S largest locally based practice Cox Yeats Attorneys, has expanded its footprint nationally. It opened a Joburg office in Sandton this month.

Jonathan re-joined Cox Yeats at the beginning of 2020 as Team Leader of the firm’s Information & Communications Technology practice, extending the firms’ services portfolio to include its’ clients’ information technology requirements.

Watch the Carte Blanche clip below, where attorney Peter Barnard was interviewed on the issue of construction mafia.

Is the rhetorical question on many CEO’s lips, even though they are inwardly sure it is so.