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Welcome to the Legal Advice Office in South Africa

The Legal Advice Office offers affordable Legal Advice as well as Legal and Paralegal Services throughout South Africa.

Our legal advice and services are based on 40 years of experience in the professional legal field. As a purely internet based legal consultancy business, we pride ourselves in personal, professional and efficient service at affordable rates and undertake to revert to our clients within 48 hours of their query being received by us.

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alternative dispute resolution

Have you ever heard of “alternative dispute resolution?”

One of the services The Legal Advice Office provides to our clients, and other interested parties; is alternative dispute resolution procedures.

These procedures broadly speaking include interventions, mediation, arbitration and other dispute resolution procedures and methods to settle disputes between two parties without proceeding with a civil court action; which could cost tens of thousands of Rands; take two years to finalise; and, if you lose, you have to pay a portion of the other person’s costs.

Alternative dispute resolution is cheaper, quicker and more efficient.

Here is an example of such a situation; which we dealt with during the course of this last month.

In Debt

We all owe money to one or more creditors.

Sometimes it is a lot of money owed to a bank like for example the bond on our house or the car that we bought for ourselves or the family.

At other times it is a smaller amounts owed on a credit card or on one or more clothing accounts etc.

All debt and the repayment of debt is however important and we should not underestimate the role it plays in all of our lives. As we know; credit providers including banks, financial institutions, clothing shops and other retailers provide information on our debt levels and our record of repaying that debt to the various credit record companies like ITC, Experian etc; and it is these records that give other retailers an indication of your credit health. They do research before they decide whether or not to lend you money or allow you to open another account. Your credit health and record are vitally important to your everyday life and financial well-being. It is to your advantage to look after your credit health.

Who are The Legal Advice Office?

Who are we and what do we do?

What makes us unique?

Why should you use our services?

What do you do if you purchase a defective motor vehicle from a new or second hand vehicle?

What recourse do you have?

We have been looking at the implied warranty on the quality of goods guaranteed by the Consumer Protection Act and more particularly section 55 & 56 of that Act of Parliament.

As we now know; we as consumers have the choice of repair, refund or replace in the event of goods bought by us being defective or damaged at the time of the sale.

This rule also applies to a motor vehicle; both new and used.

The Legal Advice Office is an exclusively internet-based legal business/firm; which although run from the Western Cape offers legal advice and legal and paralegal service right throughout the whole of South Africa and we interact with our clients only by phone and by email.