It is commonplace for organisations to collect personal information to be processed and stored on their systems. Until recently, there was no comprehensive legislation that addressed the ‘processing’ of personal information by organisations in South Africa. The Protection of Personal Information Bill (“POPI”) was signed into law in November 2013 and is expected to come into effect, later this y...

The development of marine insurance has been imperative for the expansion of longdistance maritime trade. Without marine insurance, the Dutch Republic would not have been able to enlarge its trade networks and in all likelihood would not have prospered as it did in the early modern era. The emergence and early development of marine insurance in the Netherlands has been fairly well documented. T...