SAMLA Summit 5 May 2019 – Medico-Legal Crisis in South Africa
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Personal Injury Specialist Attorney Wins Industry Award
DURBAN, 20 June 2019 – Media Release by LexisNexis Pretoria based attorney, Gert Nel of independent law firm, Gert Nel Inc, recently scooped the 2018 LexisNexis Prize for Legal Practitioners for the best article by a practising attorney published in De Rebus, the official journal of the attorneys profession. His winning article, Decoding s 2(1)(a) and […]
Case directive angers legal fraternity
21 June 2019 – By Zelda Venter on iol.co.za Pretoria – A practice directive to regulate case management and the enrolment of trials at the Gauteng High Courts, Pretoria and Johannesburg, has the legal fraternity up in arms, with them saying rather than alleviate congested court rolls, it will have a devastating effect on the […]
What’s the rush? Rabs Bill’s break-neck speed is dangerous
7 September 2018 – On bizcommunity.com Children will be the worst affected if the proposed Road Accident Benefit Scheme (Rabs) Bill goes ahead in its current iteration. The government is not only intending to reward drunk drivers and at the same time protecting them (as the common law right to sue is removed entirely), but […]
RABS: “Turnaround Speech”
9 December 2018 – On chrishunsinger.co.za Referred to as“… a stunning turnaround” by Times Live, this speech in the National Assembly of Parliament highlighted the deficiencies of The Road Accident Benefit Scheme Bill (RABS) & presented a strong case of irrational design & manipulated process in the 2nd Reading Debate on 04 December 2018, whereas the RABS Bill intended to replace the Road Accident Fund Act 56 […]
Blame game erupts over backlog of RAF cases
20 May 2019 – On South African Lawyer A backlog of Road Accident Fund (RAF) cases in the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) is fuelling a blame game between attorneys, the fund and the office of Deputy Judge President Aubrey Ledwaba, says a Sunday Times report. About 6 000 RAF case files clutter Ledwaba’s office, some more than […]
APRAV In Action 7 May 2019
*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Election 2019 and beyond… The run-up to tomorrow’s national and provincial elections offered an overwhelming amount of newsworthy articles and we won’t blame anyone who suffers from electioneering fatigue. With 48 contending political parties (19 more than 2014), it has been close to impossible to keep up with all the promises, predictions, opinions and […]
Consider Road Accident Risk Factors When Travelling This Easter
12 April 2019 – On iafrica.com Several risk factors can increase the severity of road accidents substantially and are worth remembering before taking off on your travels this Easter, especially considering SA’s very high road accident statistics. Kirstie Haslam, partner at DSC Attorneys, says that being a safer road user is key to avoiding being involved in an […]
RAF’s direct solicitation is bad news for claimants
3 April 2019 – On bizcommunity.com The Road Accident Fund (RAF) solicits claimants to deal with them directly without legal representation and then takes advantage of these unrepresented direct claimants, by neglecting to process their claim fairly or timeously, under-settling the claim or allowing it to expire resulting in claims being unenforceable, which is bad […]
APRAV In Action 1 April 2019
*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Q1 of 2019 – It’s a wrap! Aprav hit the ground running at the beginning of 2019 and is wrapping up Q1 with no shortage of momentum, opportunity, challenge and success. Our key focus this quarter was to prevent the RABS Bill from getting through Parliament before the general election…..and we succeeded. […]