Perspectives – Legal Voices on Business

Please join us to introduce Christine Elliott , former Deputy Premier and Minister of Health in Ontario who has recently joined Fasken. As Ontario – and every other jurisdiction – tackles the task of understanding the lessons learned over the past two and one half years and the appropriate balance between continuity, innovation and change in our health care system, there are few in this country be...

In this podcast episode dispute resolution partner  Jesicca Rajpal  along side candidate attorney's Catherine Hendriks and Alice Letsoalo discuss governance risk in cyber crimes as it relates to the Cyber Crimes Act. In their conversation they address how cybersecurity also has an impact on organizations. In addition the team provide a brief overview of key elements of contracts with ser...

In this special podcast episode, Mr. Raymond Chrétien , C.C., Partner and Strategic Counsel, on behalf of the Fasken partners, hosted a virtual event on May 19, 2022, in honour of Mrs. Anne Leahy, former Ambassador of Canada to Russia and Poland. In conversation, they discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its fallout for the world. They also look further into the geopolitical, diplomatic, hu...

With the assent of Bill 96, An Act respecting French, the official and common language of Québec , Antoine Aylwin and Iara Griffith discuss the new Bill’s impact on the use of French in Quebec. In this episode of Perspectives, they review the main changes that will affect companies located in or doing business in Quebec in their day-to-day. They tackle the following themes: scope, the language of...

In this podcast episode pension law partner Rosemary Hunter and Labour and Employment Law associate Tshepo Mokoana discuss the Constitutional Court judgment, Municipal Employees Pension Fund and another v Dineo Mongwaketse and another, handed down on 14 March 2022. In their conversation they discuss the Constitutional Court’s ruling, its impact and the finding that pension contributions of a perso...

Senior associates Venolan Naidoo and Daphney Willem sit down to chat together in this podcast recording titled “Can an employee be dismissed by an AI system?”. They discuss the role played by AI systems in the selection of candidates employment and the possible dismissal of employees. This is often quite a big challenge for organisations, especially with the rapid advancement of technology, and so...

The commissioning of statements or affidavits is an imperative process that has been done in a particular manner over decades. However, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown regulations forced the world to find new ways of doing things. South African courts have followed suit by ruling that there is an acceptable alternative way of commissioning affidavits from the norm, and this is virt...

Fasken Associates in the Johannesburg office Dispute Resolution & Litigation practice group Emma Alimohammadi and Andricia Hinckemann examine the damages as a result of a breach in terms of the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (otherwise known as POPI or POPIA). Section 22 of POPI, deals with a responsible parties obligation to notify data subjects of security compromises and m...

Fasken Senior Associates in the Johannesburg office Labour & Employment Law Daphney Willem and Venolan Naidoo delve into the world of artificial intelligence, the impact of the 4th Industrial Revolution and the possible impact of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) on workforce technology usage. This includes from chatbots that attend to general queries; systems that train or co...