The days of attorneys working on different drafts of agreements or other legal documents when representing opposing clients, are long gone. Nowadays, Attorney A will prepare and send a first draft to Attorney B, who will take instructions from client [...]
Many merchants receive payment from their customers via debit order. In South Africa (with its culture of late payment) it is a great way to receive payment from customers. The level of non-payment and the costs of chasing payment are [...]
This is not expressly prohibited by any law, but may possibly amount to a contravention of the provisions of the Copyright Act 98 of 1978. Broadly speaking, copyright is the right given to the owner of a copyrighted work not [...]
When would a website provider be liable for mistakes in information which it provides online? Can it avoid that liability? The general principle is that a website provider must ensure that the content on the website is accurate and will [...]
If a website provider includes databases on its site, can it stop other people from using or reproducing data from those databases? Yes. A database is protected as a literary work under the Copyright Act 98 of 1978 whilst computer [...]
Is the advertising or selling of financial services products to consumers or to businesses via the Internet regulated, and if so by whom and in what manner? Financial service providers need to register with the Financial services Board from which [...]
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) governs and regulates advertising in South Africa. It is an independent body set up by the marketing communications industry to regulate advertising through a system of self regulation. The Code of Advertising Practice is the [...]
This is an index of legal resources related to Privacy (especially regards the workplace) as at 6 September 2008. Electronic Communications - email, entrapment, internet, SMS, tapping Note: See "Code of Practice on the Protection of Workers' Personal Data" [ILO, [...]
This is an index of the legal resources related to the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000 as at 6 September 2008. General [EH van Coller De Jure (2006) 39(1) p163 - "Transparency and Access to Documents: [...]
Information Security policies support compliance in many ways. Vicarious liability Beyond sensitising employees to the risks posed by technology, information security policies minimise the organisation's exposure to vicarious liability for unauthorised or unlawful acts carried out by employees during the [...]
