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Promotional competitions

Monday, May 18th, 2009

The law relating to promotional competitions is currently a mess. Luckily, with the new Consumer Protection Act on its way this will no longer be the case and we will have some certainty.  I look at the old position, the new position, adverts relating to promotional competitions and provide a ...

Questions every Shareholder should answer

Monday, September 29th, 2008

It is essential that shareholders of each company sign a shareholders agreement - preferably at the beginning of the relationship.  Read our article Mother of all disputes to find out why.  In preparation for concluding a shareholders agreement, each shareholder should read and consider the issues raised in the following ...

Current Email Archiving Best Practices

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

The current best practices include: SANS 15489 (the South African Records Management Standard):  This standard on recordkeeping provides guidance on "[t]he standardization of records management policies and procedures," and is designed to ensure "that appropriate attention and protection is given to all records ...". SABS ISO/IEC17799 (edition one), "Information technology - Code ...

Important factors influencing email archiving

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

E-mail archiving is often confused with backups.  The primary goal of backing up is the preservation of server-based data to protect against data loss from server related problems, whereas the primary goal of e-mail archiving is to protect records which the law, the company or best practice requires be retained. There ...