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POPI Act Compliance Services- Legal Legends

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  When it comes to businesses, POPI Act compliance , also known as POPIA compliance or Protection of Personal Information Act compliance involves bringing your business into alignment with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI Act). This can take various forms, but the most common include the following (more information on these can be found below): Data Processing Agreements / Personal Information Processing Agreements; Registration of Information Officers; Website Privacy Policy; and POPI Act Workplace Policy   If you are not 100% certain of what you might need to have in place to be POPI compliant, you can take our free POPI Act Compliance Checklist Questionnaire. Once completed a Report will be emailed to immediately set out what we suggest you have in place in order to be POPI Act compliant.

Online Trademark Search | Trademark Registration Search

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  A Free trademark search is a first step of trademark registration and a logical way of researching a name, logo or slogan for prior use. It is suggested to conduct a trademark search before filing an application for a trademark in South Africa. Online Trademark Search from Legal Legends helps you in finding the uniqueness of your trademark. It also protects you from objection.

Employment Contract Builder South Africa

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Legal Legend’s Automated Employment Contract Builder is a first of its kind in South Africa. Whether you are looking for a simple contract of employment or a more complex one, our simple preference selectors will allow you to generate an Employment Contract suited to you.If you aren’t happy with the Employment Agreement which is generated, we offer a 100% money back guarantee.

Loan Agreement Template

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Legal Legend’s Loan Agreement template allows for an inexpensive way in which most aspects of a Loan Agreement may be regulated, by providing a unique table at the start of the Loan Agreement which allows for you to customise parts of the agreement that you would like to include, exclude or vary. Over many years of preparing Loan Agreements, we have hand selected and included in this template Loan Agreement, all the most common provisions to efficiently and effectively manage the relationship between a borrower and lender of monies.

DO COMMERCIAL LEASE TENANTS NEED TO PAY THEIR RENT DURING THE LOCKDOWN PERIOD?

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THERE IS A GENERAL PRINCIPLE in the Law of Contracts which requires that in instances of supervening impossibility of performance, a party who is prevented substantially from performing in terms of the contract is relieved from their obligation to perform in terms of that contract. In this regard, if there is a superior force which prevents a person from performing in terms of a contract this will be construed as vis major and regarded as a form of supervening impossibility to perform. ONE FORM of vis major is casus fortuitus, which is ordinarily defined as an uncontrollable accident or act of God. In this regard, an epidemic such as Covid-19 would in our opinion be regarded as a casus fortuitus event. If a tenant is able to show that as a result of Covid-19 they do not have beneficial occupation of the leased premises, i.e. do not have access to the leased premises, and further that the epidemic was unforeseen, uncontrollable and the direct result of an inability to per...

DO COMMERCIAL LEASE TENANTS NEED TO PAY THEIR RENT DURING THE LOCKDOWN PERIOD?

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THERE IS A GENERAL PRINCIPLE in the Law of Contracts which requires that in instances of supervening impossibility of performance, a party who is prevented substantially from performing in terms of the contract is relieved from their obligation to perform in terms of that contract. In this regard, if there is a superior force which prevents a person from performing in terms of a contract this will be construed as vis major and regarded as a form of supervening impossibility to perform. ONE FORM of vis major is casus fortuitus, which is ordinarily defined as an uncontrollable accident or act of God. In this regard, an epidemic such as Covid-19 would in our opinion be regarded as a casus fortuitus event. If a tenant is able to show that as a result of Covid-19 they do not have beneficial occupation of the leased premises, i.e. do not have access to the leased premises, and further that the epidemic was unforeseen, uncontrollable and the direct result of an inability to pe...

Employment Contract Builder South Africa

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Legal Legend’s Automated Employment Contract Builder is a first of its kind in South Africa. Whether you are looking for a simple contract of employment or a more complex one, our simple preference selectors will allow you to generate an Employment Contract suited to you.If you aren’t happy with the Employment Agreement which is generated, we offer a 100% money back guarantee.