Welcome to the Legal Advice Office in South Africa

• Legal Advice
• Consumer Law
• legal advice office south africa
• Property Law
• compliance certificate
• immovabe property
• selling a house
• gas installation
• certificate of conformity

Both sellers and Estate Agents should be made aware of this legal requirement.

Last week we received this inquiry.

 “I am in the process of selling my house. I have a permanent gas oven in the house and the transferring attorney is now telling me that I need to get a gas compliance certificate for my gas oven. Is this necessary, and should the buyer not be responsible for this and the cost involved in getting one?”

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• Company Resolutions
• Shareholders
• Board meeting
• Board of Directors
• Company Law

How, when and who must make valid company resolutions?

“My father owns a family run business and I have just bought a shareholding in that business. I’ve been part of the family business for some time; but now that I am a shareholder and director of that business; it has dawned on me that I know very little about how a company is run in practice and how the company’s directors and shareholders are supposed to take decisions. What should I know about company resolutions and what is my role in those resolutions and the decisions made by the directors of the company?”

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• lease agreements
• termination of lease
• Commercial lease agreement
• cancel lease agreement

You can not just pack up and move out.

The termination or cancellation of a commercial lease agreement/s is always a legal conundrum.

One of the matters that we specialise in is Consumer law and also in lease agreement cancellations and terminations.

It is a contract and must be dealt with correctly and legally if you want to cancel it or terminate it prematurely ie before its expiry date.

You cannot just cancel a lease agreement.

If you breach the lease and simply vacate and abandon the premises the High Court can grant the landlord an order for specific performance.

This can mean that the court orders you to return to the premises and pay the rental for the balance of the lease period. Alternatively, it can allow the landlord the right to cancel the lease because of your breach and grant an order for damages in favour of the landlord being equivalent to the rent due for the balance of the period.

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