Articles & Insights
Adv Isiah Mureriwa on Tolerance and Predicament of Minorities
By Adv Isiah Mureriwa
Just How far Can One Express Own Self Through Speech Without Being Seen To Be Invasive Of Another’s Right of Expression Through Deeds. The Supreme Court On Hate Speech. On the front page of The Sunday Times, Dec 1 2019 flashe...
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Exclusive Foreign Jurisdiction Clauses in Commercial Contracts Do Not Necessarily Exclude Local Courts’ Jurisdiction
By Adv Isiah Mureriwa
In the drafting of Commercial Contracts and often in anticipation of possible future disputes, parties insert clauses conferring exclusive jurisdiction to foreign courts. At times this is done inadvertently when parties use the so-called off-the-sh...
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Basic Notes for the Zuma – Zondo Constitutional Impasse
By Adv Isiah Mureriwa
At the heart of the Zuma – Zondo Stand Off and the ANC Top 6 Meeting with Former President Jacob Zuma scheduled for today the 08th day of March 2021, is the often-dodged question of “recusal” of Presiding Officers and their ...
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Tolerance, Endurance, Persistence and Resoluteness as Basic Survival Skills for Junior Lawyering
By Adv Isiah Mureriwa
In one informative caption floating on social media, the former President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, is associated with the following phrase:- “Those who complete the course will do so only because they do not, as fatigue sets in, c...
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Civil Forfeiture of Proceeds of Crime and Corruption in Zimbabwe
By Adv Isiah Mureriwa
On the face of The Sunday Mail, Harare, 30 August 2020, flashes an article titled ZACC seizes US$ 8m mansion, luxury cars in which reference is made to an issue captured in the heading to this article. It is the purpose of this paper to briefly provi...
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Never Ever Admit Anything in Settlement Negotiations.
By Adv Isiah Mureriwa
It Could Just Be A Trap & Could Be Used Against You. The Supreme Court of South Africa in the decision KLD RESIDENTIAL CC - v- EMPIRE EARTH INVESTMENT 17 (PTY) LTD, Civ Appeal 1135/ 2016, decided on quite a novel interpretation of a point of ...
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A Lawyer’s Liability For Moneys Stolen From His Trust Account Through Hacking.
By Adv Isiah Mureriwa
In practice we are often faced with management of cases where funds, more particularly in conveyancing and personal injury matters, are stolen from an attorney’s trust account. These thefts, aside where it is an inside job, are often done throu...
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Reflections on the Adversarial System of Litigation.
By Adv Isiah Mureriwa
In his article titled, “THE JURISPRUDANCE OF ADVERSARIAL JUSTICE” [http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/og.v15i1.2] Prof IKENGA K.E ORAEGBUNAM (PhD (Law), PhD (Phil), PhD (Rel & Soc), Med, BL (Reader and Head, Dept of International Law & Jur...
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Adv I Mureriwa: On Prosecuting Contempt of Court Proceedings under Uniform Rule 6 (12) in the South African High Court
By Adv Isiah Mureriwa
1. Ever since the Constitutional Court decision in Secretary of the Judicial Commission Of Enquiry Into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud In Public Sector Including Organs of State –v- Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma and Others [2...
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