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Suretyship vs Guarantee. What’s the difference?

02 May 2024

In this article, we look at two primary forms of security commonly found in financial transactions, namely suretyship agreements and... guarantees, and explain the difference between these two forms of security.

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Leave to Appeal vs Special Leave to Appeal

02 May 2024

On 4 April 2024 in the matter of Savannah Country Estate Homeowners Association v Zero Plus Trading 194 (Pty) Ltd... and Others (773/2022) [2024] ZASCA 40, our Supreme Court of Appeal (“SCA”) had to address the important difference between an application for leave to appeal and an application for special leave to appeal. In this article, we analyse the SCA’s views in this regard.

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Suretyship vs Guarantee. What’s the difference?

02 May 2024

In this article, we look at two primary forms of security commonly found in financial transactions, namely suretyship agreements and... guarantees, and explain the difference between these two forms of security.

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Leave to Appeal vs Special Leave to Appeal

02 May 2024

On 4 April 2024 in the matter of Savannah Country Estate Homeowners Association v Zero Plus Trading 194 (Pty) Ltd... and Others (773/2022) [2024] ZASCA 40, our Supreme Court of Appeal (“SCA”) had to address the important difference between an application for leave to appeal and an application for special leave to appeal. In this article, we analyse the SCA’s views in this regard.

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Best Legal Q&A 2019/2020

23 April 2020

Best Legal Q&A is a compilation of top legal articles written by legal professionals practising at member firms in the... Phatshoane Henney Group of Associated Law Firms. These articles have been written in response to real-life questions and scenarios encountered by professionals during 2019 across the Phatshoane Henney Group. The articles are written in a hands-on question and answer style offering practical solutions and recommendations that are plain to understand and easy to incorporate into everyday life. This publication is a useful reference tool for both informed and uninformed readers and should be kept at hand as a useful resource for answering some of those difficult daily legal questions.

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Phatshoane Henney Group Transformation Report 2018/19

09 April 2020

The Group Transformation Report for the periods 2018 and 2019 confirms the substantial progress being made by the Group in... advancing transformation and shows how the Group sets the standard for transformation in the legal industry.

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Phatshoane Henney Group Transformation Report 2016/17

01 March 2018

The Group Transformation Report for the periods 2016 and 2017 confirms the substantial progress being made by the Group in... advancing transformation and shows how the Group sets the standard for transformation in the legal industry.

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Phatshoane Henney Group spends over R50 million on BEE and transformation

29 June 2016

The Phatshoane Henney Group, South Africa’s largest association of independent law firms, has just released its first Group Transformation Report... to benchmark the impact of the Group on transformation in the country’s legal sector, notwithstanding the continuing absence of a clear legal sector BEE Charter.

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Investing in our human capital

30 June 2015

Each firm in the Phatshoane Henney Group recognises that its staff is its most important asset and understands that to... deliver the highest quality in service, you must not only have the best but also look after them in the best way. The result is a set of group standards aimed at high staff satisfaction rates through serious investment in firm staff, ensuring that ultimately member firms are seen as employers of choice.

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Phatshoane Henney Training Academy enrols 100 disabled persons in learnership programmes

15 June 2015

As part of the commitment to socio-economic development, the Phatshoane Henney Group of Associated Law Firms established the Phatshoane Henney... Training Academy in 2014 as a joint venture project with accredited training provider LFP Group Holdings. The intent thereof is to utilize funding leveraged from firms in the Phatshoane Henney Group to fund formal accredited learnership programmes for black disabled learners - and so help address dire skills shortages within our country, and in particular amongst disabled persons.

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