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SLH Inc.

Integrity's our base, clients our focus, aiming at professionalism, promising dedicated legal service

09/08/2026

Lifting Others While Reaching New Heights

To the women who lead with confidence and lift others as they rise—we celebrate you today and every day.

06/08/2026

Does the Consumer Protection Act Protect Every Tenant?
Read more: https://slhinc.co.za/does-the-consumer-protection-act-protect-every-tenant/

Paying rent under a residential lease does not automatically make you a consumer under the Consumer Protection Act. A recent Supreme Court of Appeal decision shows that the real question is whether the landlord is letting property in the ordinary course of business.

That said, even where the CPA does not apply and a lease is validly cancelled, a landlord cannot simply tell a tenant to leave without following the correct eviction process.

31/07/2026

Your Dormant Trust Is Not Invisible to SARS
Read more: https://slhinc.co.za/your-dormant-trust-is-not-invisible-to-sars-2/

Trusts remain a valuable estate planning and asset protection tool, but they also carry ongoing compliance obligations. Many trustees assume that a dormant trust with no income, assets, or activity can simply be left alone.

SARS has made it clear that inactivity does not remove a trust's compliance obligations. With penalties now being imposed for outstanding trust returns, dormant trusts may be attracting more attention than their trustees realise.

22/07/2026

One Bad Letter and Your Eviction Falls Apart
Read more: https://slhinc.co.za/one-bad-letter-and-your-eviction-falls-apart/

A tenant may be in clear breach of a lease, but that does not guarantee a successful eviction.

A recent High Court judgment shows how an unclear cancellation notice and a failure to follow the correct legal process can derail an otherwise strong case, leaving landlords with an expensive lesson in the importance of getting the basics right.

16/07/2026

Debt Collection & Recovery

Outstanding debts don't have to become lost revenue. Our experienced team provides strategic, compliant debt recovery solutions to help you recover what you're owed.

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07/07/2026

How to Protect Your Company from Unlawful Springboarding
Read more: https://slhinc.co.za/how-to-protect-your-company-from-unlawful-springboarding/

Your top employee resigns and immediately opens up a new business in direct opposition to you. Using your software, your client relationships and your business methods to springboard their new start-up and poach your clients.

We discuss, in the context of a recent High Court case, how our law can help you put a stop to that sort of unfair competition. And we share some tips on how to protect yourself from it in the future.

30/06/2026

Estate Planning: The Ambush Tax Lurking in the Wings
Read more: https://slhinc.co.za/estate-planning-the-ambush-tax-lurking-in-the-wings/

We all know that a comprehensive estate plan, with a carefully crafted will at its heart, is essential to ensure that we’re on track to leave our loved ones financially secure. And that of course requires us to quantify not only our assets, but also the costs that our estate will have to pay out of those assets before any distribution can find its way to our heirs.

In assessing those costs, don’t forget the tax angle – the taxman gets his cut in death as in life! In this article, we’ll focus on a cost that can be substantial but is easily overlooked: Capital Gains Tax (CGT). We’ll even show you how to calculate the estate’s likely CGT.

22/06/2026

Your Property Purchase Collapses: Can You Get Your Deposit Back?
Read more: https://slhinc.co.za/your-property-purchase-collapses-can-you-get-your-deposit-back/

Most buyers treat a deposit as a show of good faith. The law treats it very differently. When a sale collapses because of a buyer's breach, that deposit may be lost entirely.

The Conventional Penalties Act offers limited relief, but the threshold for court intervention is high. A recent case, in which the buyer lost the full R1.725 million deposit, illustrates just how high that threshold can be.

16/06/2026

Married Out of Community of Property? You May Still Be Entitled to a Share
Read more: https://slhinc.co.za/married-out-of-community-of-property-you-may-still-be-entitled-to-a-share/

Couples who sign antenuptial contracts often believe they have permanently settled the question of money in their marriage. What is mine stays mine. What is yours stays yours.

Not so fast. The Constitutional Court recently expanded access to redistribution orders for spouses married out of community of property without accrual, particularly where strict enforcement of an antenuptial contract would produce unfair financial consequences at divorce. A 2025 KwaZulu-Natal High Court judgment shows what the redistribution remedy can deliver in practice.

11/06/2026

Dodgy Deck: When a Property Defect is Your Problem, Not the Seller's
Read more: https://slhinc.co.za/dodgy-deck-when-a-property-defect-is-your-problem-not-the-sellers/

A deck collapsed seven months after transfer. The buyers, convinced they’d been sold a raw prawn, headed to the courts.

Eight claims and twelve years later, they haven’t recouped a cent. A 2026 Western Cape High Court judgment draws a sharp line between what the law protects buyers against and what it does not.

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Johannesburg
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Opening Hours

Monday	08:30 - 17:00
Tuesday	08:30 - 17:00
Wednesday	08:30 - 17:00
Thursday	08:30 - 17:00
Friday	08:30 - 17:00

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+27 11 728 6666

Website

http://www.slhinc.co.za/

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