Your New Car’s a Lemon: Here’s How to Make Lemonade and Get Your Money Back
You buy a second-hand vehicle and finance it through a bank. When you realise the vehicle is a complete lemon, you cancel the sale and return the vehicle. But the bank still wants its monthly instalments. We have good news for you. The Supreme Court of Appeal has just held that a bank in that situation was, per the terms of its own agreement, the “supplier” of the vehicle and must refund to the buyer both the deposit and the monthly instalments she had paid it. How did that come about, and what must you prove to win your case?
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Neighbours’ Facebook Feud: Cats Pics, Karens & Keyboard Muppets
“Dance like no one is watching, but text, post, and email like it will be read in court one day.” (Anon) When can the target
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Hamburger From Hell Takes a Bite out of Restaurant’s Profits & Reputation
“You must take reasonable care to avoid acts or omissions which you can reasonably foresee would be likely to injure your neighbour.” (Lord Atkin in
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Disclaimer Notices: How to Strengthen Yours
“The minute you read something that you can’t understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.” (Will Rogers, cowboy
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Revenge Porn and a Fake Facebook Profile – Online Defamation Costs a Couple R3.55m
“The scariest thing about digital abuse is how a victim can never know how far it went, how many people it reached, and how much
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Sour Grapes? Don’t Make Accusations Unless They’re True
“I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander’s venomed spear.” (William Shakespeare) Here’s another warning from our courts to think
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The Pothole Plague – Claiming Damages
“If cars are required to be roadworthy, shouldn’t roads be required to be car-worthy?” (Online meme) If you fall victim to a pothole-infested road, don’t
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Suing for a Supermarket “Slip ‘n Trip” – What Must You Prove?
“The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger” (William Shakespeare) Tripping over aisle blockages or slipping on floors made slick by spillages can happen
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How to Stop Someone Damaging Your Good Name on Social Media
“He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed.” (Shakespeare) As our lives
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“Bad Dog!” Why a Husky’s Owner Must Pay R100,000 Damages
“…in general, ownership of an animal should carry with it strict liability for any harm done by the animal.” (Extract from judgment below) Owning a
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