I have in all my advising and seminars advocated a proactive credit control policy for creditors. In other words – based on the principle of the “squeaky wheel gets the oil” – the creditor maintains a defined, concerted and certain credit control procedure with their debtors and thereby ensures that they get timous payment of their account. My chant being “Make yourself a priority creditor in your debtor’s life!”
But is there the possibility that creditors can over-step the mark and alienate good clients? I believe that is the case and …

Previous I had commented in generally terms on the Brink v Humphries & Jewell (Pty) Ltd 2005 (2) SA 419 (SCA) judgment and advised that I would be submitting an article for publication in a legal journal setting out the legal reasoning of why I believe majority decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal in this case was wrong.
The Article entitled “Signing Twice on the dotted line” was published in the October 2005 issue of the South African Attorneys’ Journal De Rebus at page 52.