Recent Legal Updates: 19-23 May 2025
- The Lexinfo Team
- May 23
- 4 min read
This week's update features new resources on law practice management; links to noteworthy case law and judgments and commentary on a wide range of legal matters. For comprehensive coverage of the latest legal developments, subscribe to our full newsletters. Visit our website or contact us at alert@lexinfo.co.za for more details.
LAW PRACTICE MANAGEMENT ALERT: APRIL 2025 |
The April edition features several articles, including:
Gibson, Brenda D. Lawyers, trauma, and professional well-being: How the legal community takes back its mental health. – 2025 78(1) Arkansas Law Review
Harban, Thomas. Clarifying the principles of legal practitioners’ liability in South African law. – 2025 Apr De Rebus p12
Mensah, Mawusi El. Beyond billboards: Smarter, modern marketing for African law firms. – 2025 Apr 10 Legal Africa
Murphy’s Law – South Africa’s first legal AI companion. – 2025 Apr 14 Business Tech
Ward, Rebecca. Why lawyers’ brains won’t let go of work in progress. – 2025 Apr 4 Lawyers Weekly
The following new publications are also referred to:
Hon, W. Kuan. Technology and Security for Lawyers and Other Professionals: The Basics and Beyond. – Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.
Millmore, Amanda (ed). How to Include Employability in the Law School. – Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.
ATTORNEY ALERT: 19 MAY 2025 |
This edition of the Attorney Alert refers to the Draft National Qualifications Framework Further Amendment Bill, the Intergovernmental Monitoring, Support and Interventions Bill 11 of 2025 and the Draft National Dust Control Amendment Regulations published in terms of the National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act 39 of 2004.
Also included are several references to articles, such as:
Bechard, Mark. Medical expenses: Court grants leave to appeal in member’s dispute with RAF. [Machi v Road Accident Fund (2020-12687) [2025] ZAGPJHC 78 (3 February 2025) and Machi v Road Accident Fund (2020/12687) [2025] ZAGPJHC 445 (9 May 2025)] – 2025 May 15 Moonstone
Manyangaza, Andile. Land and housing crises in South Africa: Possible strategies for change. – 2024 25(2) ESR Review p5
Mawson, Nicola. What happens when Joburg Water cuts your fibre connection in half? [Johannesburg Water (SOC) Ltd v Dark Fibre Africa (Pty) Ltd (A2023/081149) [2025] ZAGPJHC 459 (14 May 2025)] – 2025 May 15 IOL News
Mitryakova, Elena and Boniface, Amanda. Legal regulations of surrogate motherhood in Russia and South Africa: Similarities and differences. – 2025 12(1) BRICS Law Journal p20
Scott-Ngoepe, Tshepiso. The protection of small enterprises in South Africa: A comparison with jurisdictions in the USA, India and the UK. – 2024 57(3) Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa
EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR LAW ALERT: 19 MAY 2025 |
This week’s edition includes references to the following recent Labour Court judgments:
Nombewu v Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration and Others (C 564/2022) [2025] ZALCCT 30 (15 May 2025) (dismissal; legal representation in arbitration proceedings)
Viljoen v Peninsula Plumbing and Engineering Works (Pty) Ltd (C 383/2021) [2025] ZALCCT 31 (15 May 2025) (unfair dismissal claim)
Walker v Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration and Others (C 179/2023) [2025] ZALCCT 25 (14 May 2025) (unfair discrimination claim)
Also included are the following articles:
Le Roux, Felix. Public-sector employment relationships are generally not subject to PAJA. [Majoe v Nala Local Municipality (2840/2023) [2025] ZAFSHC 75 (12 March 2025)] – 2025 May 14 Norton Rose Fulbright: Financial Institutions Legal Snapshot
Mahomed, Imraan and Masuku, Lee. Constructive dismissal: The end result of complaints, grievances and toxicity in the workplace. [Makombe v Cape Conference of the Seventh Day Adventist and Others (C04/2023) [2025] ZALCCT 19 (28 March 2025)] – 2025 May 12 Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
Sychenko, Elena et al. Struggling against violence and harassment in the workplace: A legal narrative of the BRICS countries’ experience. – 2025 12(1) BRICS Law Journal p80
INSURANCE LAW ALERT: 20 MAY 2025 |
Tuesday’s edition contains a reference to the High Court judgment in Clientèle Life Assurance Company Ltd v B3 Insurance Brokers (Pty) Ltd and Another (024527/25) [2025] ZAGPJHC 332 (20 March 2025).
The following articles are included:
Bechard, Mark. Bundled credit insurance ruled unlawful for consumers who can’t claim. [National Credit Regulator v JDG Trading (Pty) Ltd and Another (Black Sash Trust as Amicus Curiae) (A3086/2019) [2025] ZAGPJHC 442 (7 May 2025)] – 2025 May 12 Moonstone
Bechard, Mark. Medical expenses: Court grants leave to appeal in member’s dispute with RAF. [Machi v Road Accident Fund (2020-12687) [2025] ZAGPJHC 78 (3 February 2025) and Machi v Road Accident Fund (2020/12687) [2025] ZAGPJHC 445 (9 May 2025)] – 2025 May 15 Moonstone
Also featured is the Pension Funds Adjudicator determination in Rossouw v Momentum Retirement Annuity Fund (PFA/GP/00114109/2024/AT) (4 October 2024).
HEALTH LAW ALERT: 21 MAY 2025 |
Wednesday’s edition contains a reference to the following High Court judgment concerning admission and practising privileges:
The following articles are also included:
Bechard, Mark. Medical expenses: Court grants leave to appeal in member’s dispute with RAF. [Machi v Road Accident Fund (2020-12687) [2025] ZAGPJHC 78 (3 February 2025) and Machi v Road Accident Fund (2020/12687) [2025] ZAGPJHC 445 (9 May 2025)] – 2025 May 15 Moonstone
Pillay, Deniro and Lawlor, Amber. HPCSA Preliminary Committee decisions can be appealed to High Court. [Dercksen v Health Professions Council of South Africa and Another (A13/2024) [2025] ZAGPPHC 433 (2 May 2025)] – 2025 May 16 Norton Rose Fulbright: Financial Institutions Legal Snapshot
Thaldar, Donrich. Clarifying misconceptions and recentring the debate on heritable human genome editing in South Africa: A response to De Vries. – 2025 (28) Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal
ENERGY LAW ALERT: 22 MAY 2025 |
The latest edition refers to the draft Mineral Resources Development Bill, 2025, which has been published for comment in the Government Gazette.
The following articles are also included:
Feris, Jackwell et al. Big boost for a South African green hydrogen economy as new tools released. – 2025 May 15 Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
Louw, Kathleen and Andropoulos, Alexi. Illegal miners: The mine health and safety obligations of mining right holders for mines no longer “being worked”. – 2025 May 15 Werksmans Attorneys
Roberts, Emma and Naidoo, Evaendren. South Africa’s electricity transmission market to be opened up. – 2025 May 13 Pinsent Masons
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Date posted: 23 May 2025
