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Legal Articles (290 items)
- 2024 National Elections
- Freedom of expression. Be careful what you post o...
- Our Kimberley and Newcastle Branches make a move...
- Religious and cultural rights
- The Child Justice Act
- Top Employers 2024
- “I was involved in a motor vehicle crash. Can I cl...
- “Sign here, here and here” Signatures and their co...
- #OurStoriesMatter – A Dialogue with Women in Law
- 16 Days of Activism and gender-based violence
- A financial safety net
- A hopeful future for the full recognition of Musli...
- Access to Justice as a Human Right
- Access to justice during the national lockdown
- Acknowledgement of Debt
- Actual cases
- Administration of deceased estates
- ADMINISTRATION OF DECEASED ESTATES
- After hours bail and our Network Lawyers
- Annual Premium Rerate
- Answers to your questions
- Appointment of Non-Executive Director
- Are you aware of the Care Dependency Grant for a c...
- Basic Will Template
- BE AN EVERYDAY HERO AND STOP CHILD ABUSE
- Be careful. Your qualification could be worthless...
- Blocked Identity Documents Case Update
- Branch news
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- Bright but broke? A bursary could be your answer.
- Building a solid foundation for a Bright Future
- Bursaries and mentorship
- Changes to the LegalWise Membership Agreement
- Changes to the LegalWise Membership Agreement Effe...
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- Changing lives through education
- Child Abuse
- Children's rights
- Claiming back maintenance after negative paternity...
- Claims
- Clarity on UIF and TERS benefits during the COVID-...
- Commission for Gender Equality
- Community Partners
- Compliments from Members
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- Connect to the power of LegalWise
- Consumer Financial Education
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- COVID -19: Adjusted Alert Level 1
- COVID-19 and the workplace – shedding some light o...
- Covid-19 in the workplace
- COVID-19 road rules
- COVID-19 road rules
- Criminal offenses during the COVID- 19 national di...
- Customary Marriages
- Customary marriages
- Dangers of Not Having a Will
- Dear LegalWise
- Dear LegalWise
- Dear LegalWise
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- Did you make the right choice when choosing LegalW...
- Different forms of violence associated with gender...
- Different types of evidence and documents in respe...
- Direct Marketing in Terms of the Consumer Protecti...
- Don’t let a verbal agreement turn into an argument...
- Duties of an Executor of a Deceased Estate
- Electoral Commission of South Africa: a brief over...
- End of the National State of Disaster: interim mea...
- Expanding our circles of influence through educati...
- Feminism in South Africa and its legal influence
- Feminism in South Africa and its legal influence
- Find an open LegalWise Branch
- FREE Legal Contracts
- Freedom of expression. Be careful what you post on...
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- Frequently Asked Questions - Women Issues
- FROM TRAINEE TO EMPLOYMENT
- GBV contact organisations
- Gender-Based Violence
- Gender-Based Violence: stricter legislation on its...
- Giving our youth credit
- Go online
- Guardian’s Fund
- Harassment and Protection Orders
- HIV/AIDS in the Workplace
- How the COVID-19 virus can impact consumer agreeme...
- HOW TO TREAT BULLYING IN SCHOOLS
- How to Treat Bullying in Schools
- Human Rights Campaign 2020 T&Cs
- Human rights: your beliefs and opinions
- If you do the crime, you must do the time
- Impact Litigation Unit
- Improving our service to you
- Improving our service to you
- In a roadblock? Be calm and keep your cool.
- In the line of Fire?
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- Insurance Benefits and Premiums effective from 1 J...
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- Introducing the LegalWise Legacy Accumulator, a ne...
- Islamic Marriages and Divorce Act
- JOZAANDRE BOOYSEN
- Justice Leona Valerie Theron
- Know how to submit a claim
- Know your rights
- Know your rights
- Know your rights You have rights. Even when apply...
- Know your rights - Unpaid school fees. Can...
- Labour Law: Understanding the New Earnings Thresho...
- Labour law: understanding the new earnings thresho...
- Lease agreements enforceable during lockdown
- Legal Contracts
- LegalWise Branches on the move.
- LegalWise Celebrates 40 Years by Offering Free Leg...
- LegalWise Certified as a Top Employer
- LegalWise certified as a Top Employer.
- LegalWise Challenges Unlawful Blocking of Identity...
- LegalWise Community Building
- LegalWise has been recognised for the second year...
- LegalWise Member Bursary Programme
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- LegalWise South Africa launches its Impact Litigat...
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- Letter from the CEO
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- Letter from the CEO
- Letter from the CEO
- Level 4 lockdown: being reintroduced to the workpl...
- Living together and inheritance. What did the judg...
- Living with a parent abroad is not always in the b...
- LLB from a Private Institution: Admission granted
- Lobolo: an understanding of the basic principles
- Lock-down offences: Clearing your criminal record
- Lockdown Regulations give guidance to landlords an...
- Losing your job for using cannabis at work or home...
- Making a Will – Be Sure Your Intentions Are Clear
- Mandatory vaccinations in the workplace
- Marriages out of community of property: High Court...
- McGregor v Public Health and Social Development Se...
- Medical negligence during childbirth
- Medical negligence during childbirth
- Meet Tumelo and Charlotte in our new TV ad.
- Member and Attorney interviews
- Members Compliments
- Minister of Justice and Correctional Services addr...
- More answers to your questions
- Moving house during Level 4 lockdown
- Municipal Service – a new benefit for all LegalWis...
- Muslim marriages get legal recognition.
- National Language Policy
- National Minimum Wage: What you need to know
- New benefit - LegalWise Legacy Accumulator
- New legislation in place to fight cyberbullying in...
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- New legislation to protect victims of Gender-Based...
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- New Premiums & Insurance Benefits from 1 July 2022...
- New self-service BOT
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- No-one Deserves to Live in Fear: You Can Do Someth...
- No-one deserves to live in fear: You CAN do someth...
- Not paying maintenance? Your pension fund may be t...
- Notice: Membership Payments made via Pay A Bill at...
- Now LegalWise Members and the public can #ChatToLe...
- Now! Legal consultations on Zoom
- Nozuko Mzamo - Graduate & Careers' Consultant, Mos...
- Online abuse against women. It’s on the rise!
- Online Contract Creator
- Online contracts
- Our Bursary Holders become part of the family and...
- Our roads and the law
- Our services to you
- Our tax advice and assistance service is ready for...
- Parental Rights and Responsibilities
- Pregnancies in schools
- Premiums and Insurance Benefits from 1 July 2022
- Premiums and Insurance Benefits from 1 July 2021
- Prof. MAMOKGETHI PHAKENG, PhD(Wits), Hon DSc (Bris...
- Professor Elsabe Schoeman
- Protecting our children
- Protecting your personal information
- Public school activities and indemnity forms
- Public Transport: understanding the transfer of Op...
- Putting your trust in a Trust
- Raising Transformational Leaders
- Rehana Khan Parker - Director- Woza Awards/ Woza W...
- Reporting of Sexual Abuse
- Requirements of a Valid Will
- Retrenchments during the national lockdown: only a...
- Rewards for communities
- Rights of Fixed Term, Part-time and Other Employee...
- Safe spaces that raise Urban Heroes
- Serving our communities
- Sexual Abuse of a Learner: Rights of Children and...
- SEXUAL ABUSE OF A LEARNER: RIGHTS OF CHILDREN AND...
- Silence encourages the tormentor not the tormented...
- Siva Gengan, CEO: LegalWise
- South Africa's Constitution 25 years on
- Stay put – a summary of the regulations regarding...
- Steps we’re taking to ensure our Branches are COVI...
- Teresa Yates, National Director: Probono.Org
- Testamentary trusts: created in your Will
- The Bill of Rights
- The Children's Act
- The consequences of paying an admission of guilt f...
- The Constitution and the pandemic. How COVID-19 ha...
- The gender violence campaign
- The LegalWise #BeyondMentorship Programme
- The LegalWise BOT
- The LegalWise Podcast Series
- The Message Trust Community Hub, Nyanga – Building...
- The Protection of Personal Information Act
- The right to privacy and access to medical informa...
- The role of the SAPS in the context of Gender-Base...
- Think before you say something on social media
- Types and Jurisdiction of South African Courts
- Understanding a Rent to Own Agreement (Movable Pro...
- Understanding the basics of defamation
- Understanding your right to lay-by goods
- Unemployment Insurance Benefits
- Unmarried fathers can now give their children thei...
- Utility service charges
- Vaccinations in the workplace: what does the law s...
- Vehicle accident procedures
- Video Consultations
- Video Consultations – Making the Law More Accessib...
- Watch out for loan sharks that will take more than...
- We have a FREE Lobolo agreement waiting for you.
- What did the judge say?
- What did the judge say?
- What you need to know about the COVID-19 Vaccine I...
- Whistleblowing
- Why rush out to pay your LegalWise premium when yo...
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- Women and insurance discrimination
- Women and property ownership
- Women and the BEE-Act
- Women’s Month
- Women’s Rights in Business
- Working from home and claiming on your tax return
- You could end up crying if you don’t read the cont...
- You Have Been Accused of an Offence
- Your Membership Agreement
- Your Membership Agreement
- Your Right to Citizenship.
- Youth employment
QuickLaw Guides (43 items)
- Actual Case - Religion in Schools
- Administration Orders
- Adoption
- Age, Domicile and Status
- Apportionment Of Damages
- Bail
- Being Employed
- Buying/selling a Property
- Can Human Rights Be Limited?
- Cancelling a Credit Agreement
- Child Contact
- Cohabitation
- Consumer Protection Act
- Credit Records
- Debt Counselling
- Dismissals
- Divorce
- Domestic Violence and Protection Orders
- Domestic Worker Employment
- Emoluments Attachment Orders
- Evictions
- Garnishee Orders South Africa
- Harassment
- Human Rights - Frequently Asked Questions
- Introduction to SA Law
- Lease Agreements
- Maintenance
- Marriages
- Motor Vehicle Accidents
- National Credit Act
- Prescription
- Protected by the Constitution
- Rental Housing Tribunal: Resolving Landlord and Te...
- Resignation and Retirement
- Retrenchment
- Road Accident Fund Claims
- Small Claims Court
- Strikes and Lock-outs
- Transfer of Property
- Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF)
- Unmarried Father
- Wills
- Workplace Injuries
Free Legal Contracts (14 items)
- Acknowledgment Of Debt
- Cohabitation Agreement
- Cohabitation Agreement 20
- Domestic Workers Agreement Jan 23 (005) Final Vers...
- General Power Of Attorney
- Lease Agreement
- Lobolo Agreement
- Non Disclosure Agreement
- Offer To Purchase
- Partnership Agreement For Ordinary Partnership
- Rent To Own
- Restraint Of Trade
- Sale Of Motor Vehicle Instalments
- Sale Of Motor Vehicle Once Off
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- What does the law say about workplace bullying?
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- What is the process to follow when Members are unh...
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Legal Glossary (155 items)
- ACCIDENT REPORT
- Accident Report
- Accused
- Administrator
- ADVERSE CONSUMER CREDIT INFORMATION
- Affidavit
- Aggravation
- ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION AGENT
- Ante Nuptial Contract
- Application
- Bank Guarantee
- Bequest
- BUSINESS
- Business
- Cancellation of Court Order
- Care
- Caregiver
- Chairperson
- Changing of Court Order
- Child
- Children's Court
- CIVIL MATTER
- CLAIM
- Clearance Certificate
- Collective Agreement
- Commissioner
- Common Law Marriage
- Compensation
- Constructive Dismissal
- Consulting Employees
- Contact
- Contract
- Contractual Debt
- Conviction
- Couple
- Courts
- CREDIT AGREEMENT
- CREDIT BUREAU
- CREDIT FACILITY
- CREDIT PROVIDER
- Criminal matter
- Criminal Offence
- Curator - What does a Curator do with regards to l...
- Custodian
- DEBT COUNSELLOR
- Deed of Transfer
- Deeds Office
- Defaulting Mortgager
- Defence
- Defendant
- Delayed
- Delictual Debt?
- Dependant
- Disputes of Mutual Interest
- Divorce
- Domestic Worker
- Electrical Compliance Certificate
- Employee
- Employer
- Essential Service
- Estate Agency Affairs Board
- Eviction
- Evidence
- Ex Parte
- Executor
- Extinguished
- Family Advocate
- Final Protection Order
- GAS COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
- Gas Compliance Certificate
- Guardian
- Guardianship
- Immovable Property - What is immovable property?
- Incestuous Relationship
- Indemnity
- Independent Contractor
- INSTALMENT AGREEMENT
- Interdict
- Interim Protection Order
- Interrupted
- Intestate
- Joint and Several Liability
- Judgment
- JURISTIC PERSON
- Just and Equitable
- Landlord
- Lease Agreement
- LEASE OF GOODS
- Legal Aid - What is legal aid?
- Loan Repayments
- Maintenance Court
- Maintenance Officer
- Mala Fide
- Marriage
- MARRIAGE IN COMMUNITY OF PROPERTY
- Marriage in Community of Property
- MARRIAGE OFFICER
- Marriage Officer
- MARRIAGE OUT OF COMMUNITY OF PROPERTY WITH THE ACC...
- MARRIAGE OUT OF COMMUNITY OF PROPERTY WITHOUT THE...
- Mitigation
- MONOGAMOUS MARRIAGE
- Monogamous Marriage
- Mortgage Bond
- NATIONAL CREDIT REGULATOR
- NATURAL PERSON
- Negligent
- OMBUDSMAN
- Operational Reasons
- Ordinary Course of Business
- Parent
- Parental Rights and Responsibilities
- PAYMENT DISTRIBUTION AGENCY
- PERMANENT DISABILITY
- Person
- Pest Control Certificate
- Plain Language
- Plaintiff
- POLYGAMOUS MARRIAGE
- Polygamous Marriage
- Power of Attorney
- Prodigal
- Property
- Protection Order
- Reasonable Person
- RECKLESS CREDIT
- Reinstatement
- Rental Housing Tribunal
- Representations
- Sanction
- Sectoral Determination
- SECURED LOAN
- Sexual Harassment
- Sheriff
- Spouses
- Summoned
- Summons
- Suspended Warrant of Arrest
- Suspensive Conditions
- TEMPORARY DISABILITY
- Tenant
- Testator
- Unemployed
- Unfair Practice
- Void
- Voluntary Retrenchment - What is voluntary retrenc...
- Warrant of Arrest
- Warrant of Execution
- What does it mean when a child is born out of wedl...
- What does marriage out of community of property wi...
- What does marriage out of community of property wi...
- What is a Will?
- Witness
- Work Practices
- Wrongful
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