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TOOLS OF THE TRADE – Chris Binnington – Enforcement of Arbitration Awards – December 2022

  • December 9, 2022
  • Leandré Jacobs
  • TOOLS OF THE TRADE

Chris Binnington is a director of the Association of Arbitrators (Southern Africa (NPC) and a Life Fellow of the Association of Arbitrators. He was, from 1997 to 2010, the Chairman of the Association, and is widely regarded as one of the most experienced ... read more

TOOLS OF THE TRADE – Mr Tom McDonald – Timing of lex commissoria – December 2022

  • December 9, 2022
  • Leandré Jacobs
  • TOOLS OF THE TRADE

TIMING – LEX COMMISSORIA CANCELLATION SUMMARY This article considers the timing of a cancellation invoked in terms of a lex commissoria clause and the affect which the issue of an intervening negative payment certificate (i.e., money certified as be... read more

TOOLS OF THE TRADE – Adv J Moorcroft – Comments on the Jurisdiction of Arbitrators – December 2022

  • December 9, 2022
  • Leandré Jacobs
  • Uncategorized

Comments on the Jurisdiction of Arbitrators INTRODUCTION Arbitration is governed in our statute law[1] by the Arbitration Act (the Act)[2] in respect of domestic arbitrations and the International Arbitration Act (the IAA)[3] in respect of international a... read more

A CASE IN POINT – Kiki Bailey SC – Recent Judgements – December 2022

  • December 9, 2022
  • Leandré Jacobs
  • A CASE IN POINT

Is it the Court or the Arbitrator who decides the validity of an arbitration agreement? In the judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) of Canton Trading 17 (Pty) Ltd t/a Cube Architects v Fanti Bekker Hattingh NO[1] the SCA had to decide whether it ... read more

UNCLE OSWALD’S Q&A FORUM – December 2022

  • December 9, 2022
  • Leandré Jacobs
  • UNCLE OSWALD’S Q&A

Dear Uncle Oswald It is me again, Frikkie the fearless contractor.  I was at a site hand-over meeting yesterday where the clever guys discussed on-demand guarantees.  One of the engineers was of the view that an on-demand guarantee always exists indepen... read more

FROM THE EDITOR’S PEN – December 2022

  • December 9, 2022
  • Leandré Jacobs
  • FROM THE EDITOR’S PEN

Advocate Eric Dunn SC is the editor of this e-periodical.  Eric is a member of the Maisels Group of Advocates and a senior member of the Johannesburg Bar.  He is a director and Fellow of the Association of Arbitrators (Southern Africa) NPC, as well as a... read more

A CASE IN POINT – Kiki Bailey SC – Irregularity of Default Awards – April 2023

  • May 3, 2023
  • Leandré Jacobs
  • A CASE IN POINT

IRREGULARITY OF AWARDS GIVEN BY DEFAULT In The Greater Tzaneen Municipality (the Municipality) v Siphiwe Engineering and Technologies CC (Siphiwe) the court, sitting as a court of appeal (the court of appeal), had to consider the regularity or otherwise o... read more

TOOLS OF THE TRADE – COURT REFUSES TO ENFORCE ADJUDICATOR’S DECISION DUE TO A BREACH OF NATURAL JUSTICE – April 2023

  • May 3, 2023
  • Leandré Jacobs
  • TOOLS OF THE TRADE

COURT REFUSES TO ENFORCE ADJUDICATOR’S DECISION DUE TO A BREACH OF NATURAL JUSTICE[1] [This article was first published as a Thomson Reuters Practical Law Construction Blog on 12 April 2022 by Jonathan Cope, and is now published here in its entirety wit... read more

TOOLS OF THE TRADE – SIDESTEPPING AN ARBITRATION AGREEMENT – April 2023

  • May 3, 2023
  • Leandré Jacobs
  • TOOLS OF THE TRADE

INTRODUCTION Arbitration is an alternative private dispute resolution process which is governed by the Arbitration Act 42 of 1965 (the Act). If a party to a contract, which includes an agreement to arbitrate disputes, institutes legal proceedings, the Act... read more

TOOLS OF THE TRADE – EXERCISING A DISCRETION UNDER SECTION 20 OF THE ARBITRATION ACT: A SUMMARY OF THE RELEVANT CONSIDERATIONS AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES – April 2023

  • May 3, 2023
  • Leandré Jacobs
  • TOOLS OF THE TRADE

The scenario Two parties, an organ of state on the one hand and a landowner on the other, submitted to arbitration a dispute concerning the amount of compensation to be paid to the landowner in terms of the Expropriation Act 63 of 1975, following the expr... read more

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