CARMEL RICKARD: No, you can’t get even
If you get jilted by your lover, feel free to get mad — but the courts are clear that you are not entitled to damages for breach of promise
CARMEL RICKARD: Land reform delay sets the tone
Land reform laws should provide labour tenants with security — but 16 years after the closing date, 11,000 labour tenants’ claims remain unprocessed
CARMEL RICKARD: Long walk for women
Mduduzi Manana, Grace Mugabe and an unusual inheritance case in the courts all help to make August a month to remember (but not in a good way)
CARMEL RICKARD: Ensuring fair deals in developing countries
An international pro bono organisation is helping to put top-level lawyers at the service of developing countries that need help against corporations
CARMEL RICKARD: Taken to the cleaners
Judge addresses ‘offensive’ provisions in an employment contract that stripped away basic legal rights while not properly informing the employee
CARMEL RICKARD: Making bad civil servants accountable
The judiciary has been working on the idea that officials may be ordered to pay damages or legal costs out of their own pockets
CARMEL RICKARD: No power is unlimited
Even when you’re appointed to sort out a dysfunctional municipality, you should still play by the book, as a case in the North West high court shows
CARMEL RICKARD: Pharmaco fires 'brilliant' rep for refusing 'degrading' test
The company has been taken to task by the labour appeal court for ‘manipulating’ an employee’s medical condition in order to fire her
CARMEL RICKARD: Slamming 'offensive' SA court decision, mining giant abandons $6m cargo
Mining giant OCP walks away from valuable cargo rather than participate in ownership dispute
CARMEL RICKARD: Unexpected justice for one man fighting banking Goliath
A case in North West proves that sometimes urban legends are real, and that ordinary people can get justice
CARMEL RICKARD: Pressure on judges to deliver decisions quickly
Justice delayed is justice denied — and now the country’s top judges want to have delinquents named and shamed
CARMEL RICKARD: Is Eskom xenophobic? Or is someone from Grindrod not telling the truth?
The power utility denies that it ‘banned’ foreign drivers from its Ankerlig site. The logistics company says it did. Who to believe?
CARMEL RICKARD: Slippery schemer finally runs out of wriggle room
It turns out that perpetrators of small-time fraud and corruption are just as slippery as the big timers — the presidents, ministers, drunken judges and ...
CARMEL RICKARD: Getting a fair shake
A JPMorgan employee set out to clear her name after being disciplined and dismissed for e-mailing ‘confidential’ company information to her home
CARMEL RICKARD: A real tax turkey
In a 2017 case, M learns the same hard lesson about the authorities’ interpretation of ‘accrual’ that Farmer Lategan did in 1920
CARMEL RICKARD: Rare win over graft
It took years for Saamwerk Saltworks to get justice in its fight against SA Saltworks, which was mining in the Northern Cape with a forged permit
CARMEL RICKARD: Procurement perils
Government entities have so often neglected to follow proper tender processes that the courts have already made several key judgments about it
CARMEL RICKARD: Trade secrets
Restraint of trade clauses aim to protect companies’ interests — but an over-broad formulation has left one company with no such protection at all
CARMEL RICKARD: It’s about intention
A case that had to decide the vital difference between ‘racial descriptors’ and ‘racist terms’ had to go all the way to the labour appeal court