• Consumer Law
• Consumer Protection Act
• private car sale
• sold by owner
• vehicle sold at own risk

We recently assisted a purchaser who had privately bought a motor vehicle from another private individual as a seller.

The Toyota Corolla motor vehicle seemed at the time of the sale to be in good condition and the purchaser paid the seller the full purchase price of R 96000.00 by EFT and then took delivery of the vehicle. A short simple deed of sale was signed by both parties.

Everything seemed to be in order.

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• South Africa Law
• Legal Advice
• Online Legal Advice
• Consumer Law
• Civil Law
• Property Law
• Commercial Law
• The consumerLaw

What grounds do I need to cancel a sale?

What process must I follow?

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• South Africa Law
• Online Legal Advice
• General Law
• Consumer Law
• Civil Law
• Labour Law
• The Legal Advice Office
• The Consumer Protection Act

Perhaps somebody owes you money and will not pay it back?

Maybe someone damaged your property; your car or other property and refuses to fix it at their cost?

You could always sue them in a court, but that takes time and normally costs a lot of money

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• Online Legal Advice
• Consumer Law
• Civil Law
• Commercial Law
• Online Shopping
• Fraud

One of the issues that crop up on a regular basis with The Legal Advice Office are queries and advice sought from us when you have been lied to or, at least, not been told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
If someone sells you an item, for example, a motor car, and they do not fully disclose to you any defects in that vehicle that they knew about or should reasonably have known about; then you have certain legal rights and recourse.

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• Commercial Law
• Privacy Policy
• Data Protection
• Protect of Personal Information Act
• Website Security

The importance or otherwise of having a privacy policy for your business.

We all like our privacy but is privacy and a formal privacy policy for my business realty that important?

Last Friday we received the following query.

 “I am a local business owner and I’ve been working recently with developers to take my business online. They have advised me to make sure I have a proper privacy policy drawn up for my website. Is this really necessary or can I just use a standard one from the internet?”

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