July 2016

Directors, managers – Your new risk of “cartel conduct” criminal liability is even wider than reported “A cartel involves an agreement or concerted practice between two or more competitors to engage in fixing prices and/or trading conditions, dividing markets and/or collusive tendering.  By artificially limiting competition that would normally prevail between them, firms avoid exactly […]

“Is a stolen copyright a copy-wrong?” (Anonymous)  The high profile “Moneyweb v Fin 24” High Court judgment is significant for all online publishers.  In a nutshell, Fin 24 was ordered to pay damages to Moneyweb for copyright infringement in respect of one article, but the Court found against Moneyweb in regard to six other articles and

“Agreement makes law” (Old legal maxim) Although in our law most verbal contracts are binding, property sale agreements are an exception. They must be in writing and signed by the parties to be valid, the reason being that it greatly reduces the risk of confusion or dispute as to what the buyer and seller have