By S’negugu Dlamini, Candidate Attorney and Chantelle Gladwin-Wood, Partner Introduction The City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality (“COJ”) often threaten people if they haven’t paid all amounts that the invoices reflect are owed. Sadly, we know that in many cases, the invoices are incorrect and a portion or even the whole of the amounts demanded, are

By Chantelle Gladwin-Wood, Partner and Maike Gohl, Junior Partner 16 February 2021 INTRODUCTION This article examines the thorny issue of when engineering contributions demanded by the municipality prescribe.[1] Our firm’s prior articles on the topic have become obsolete due to changes in the law. This article seeks to deal with the updated situation since the

By Chantelle Gladwin-Wood (Partner) and Maike Gohl (Partner) 11 February 2021 Introduction This article takes a critical look at the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality (“COJ”)’s proposed 2021/2022 rates policy. The COJ is currently in the process of conducting public meetings relating to the proposed changes to the policy, which will take effect on 1

By Blake Hamilton, Candidate Attorney and Chantelle Gladwin-Wood, Partner 22 January 2021 Introduction The world is being propelled into utter turmoil with the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic. It has been almost a year since the global pandemic struck South Africa, and for many months, people around the world have had to restructure their lifestyles, buying

By Chantelle Gladwin-Wood (Partner), Anja van Wijk (Senior Associate), and Marc Gevers (Candidate Attorney) October 2020 Introduction This article is one in a series on expropriation, which looks at some of the fundamental legal issues surrounding expropriation in the context of the revised Expropriation Bill published for comment on 9 October 2020 (“Expropriation Bill”). [1]

By Chantelle Gladwin-Wood (Partner), Anja van Wijk (Senior Associate), and Marc Gevers (Candidate Attorney) October 2020 Introduction This article is one in a series on expropriation, which looks at some of the fundamental legal issues surrounding expropriation in the context of the revised Expropriation Bill published for comment 9 October 2020 (“Expropriation Bill”). [1] This

By Chantelle Gladwin-Wood (Partner), Anja van Wijk (Senior Associate), and Marc Gevers (Candidate Attorney) October 2020 Introduction This article is one in a series on expropriation, which looks at some of the fundamental legal issues surrounding expropriation in the context of the revised Expropriation Bill published for comment 9 October 2020 (“Expropriation Bill”). [1] This

By Chantelle Gladwin-Wood, Partner, Maike Gohl, Partner and Lauren Squier, Associate 23 October 2020 Introduction The City of Johannesburg’s (“COJ”) 2018 Supplementary 2 Valuation Roll (“2018 Supplementary 2 GV”) was released for public inspection and comment on 21 October 2020. It will remain open for inspection and objection until 4 December 2020 It is avialable

By Chantelle Gladwin-Wood (Partner) and Maike Gohl (Partner) 10 September 2020 INTRODUCTION There can be nothing more alarming than suddenly receiving a monthly invoice containing municipal charges that far exceed what you had expected or budgeted for. There are three possible reasons why you may have suddenly received an unusually high water bill. The City*

By Chantelle Gladwin-Wood (Partner) and Maike Gohl (Partner) 10 September 2020 INTRODUCTION Properties on which residential sectional title schemes or apartment blocks are built must be billed by the City in a manner that takes into account the number of ‘dwelling units’ or ‘flats’ at the property. This is because in terms of the latest