Welcome to the Legal Advice Office in South Africa

• Legal Advice
• criminal offence
• Corporal Punishment
• Spanking a child
• Assault to a child

"I saw it reported recently that the spanking of your child has now been declared a criminal offence. Is this true?"

Corporal Punishment:

Here is a query we received yesterday via email.

 "I saw it reported recently that the spanking of your child has now been declared a criminal offence.

Is this true? Will this not result in an overloading our justice system even more than it already is?"

We all know that corporal punishment in any form in our schools has been outlawed for a long time.

But what is the situation at home?

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• Consumer Law
• Commercial Law
• Consumer Protection Act
• Indemnity
• Disclaimer
• At Owners Own Risk
• Own Risk

An indemnity is an agreement in terms of which one party indemnifies another from liability for certain possible future events, liability and risk for such an event.

Eg: In a garage or a mechanics workshop a sign that reads “Cars are driven at the owner’s risk” or in a parking garage “Cars are stored at the owner’s sole risk.” These are general terms of indemnity that a service provider wants you to agree to, and can also often be found on quotations and invoices.

Today; we thought we would try and answer this question which was sent to us last week on Friday.

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• Consumer Protection Act
• Car Dealer
• Faulty Motor Vehicle
• Guarentee

You could call us “problem solvers!”

At The Legal Advice Office, we provide people with proper, professional and personal legal advice and services and attempt always to act in their best interests and to resolve their legal problems for them.

You could call us “problem solvers!”

Sometimes we are successful and sometimes we are not, but we always try our best and for us, our clients come first and must be given the best possible legal advice and service. We therefore always insist on full detailed instructions by email so that we can provide that service.

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