Once a principal agent, engineer, or project manager signs off a contractor’s payment application, the employer is on the hook. The signed certificate stops being a request for payment that either side can still negotiate. Our courts treat it as a liquid...
In June 2026, the Department of Trade, Industry, and Competition published South Africa’s new Industrial Development Strategy. It names affordable, reliable electricity as the biggest and most urgent enabler for industrial development. Yet its headline mining...
Pay now, argue later: The two narrow doors out of an adjudicator’s decision If an adjudicator of a construction dispute issues a determination in your favour, the other side must pay you now and argue about it later. If you lose, you must do the same....
You did not sign the contract. You can still be bound to its arbitration clause. An employer on a Camps Bay building project paid 14 of the 15 payment certificates issued to its contractor. When the relationship broke down, and the final certificate went...
When artificial intelligence derails workplace discipline The increasing use of artificial intelligence in legal and workplace processes promises greater efficiency and faster access to information. However, a recent Labour Court judgment serves as a timely...
Equality at what cost? Revisiting disability and reasonable accommodation The Constitutional Court’s decision in Damons v City of Cape Town remains one of the most important South African judgments on disability discrimination, reasonable accommodation,...
