The third edition of this established and handy guide to the Rules of the CCMA reproduces the newly published Guidelines on Misconduct Arbitrations in terms of the Labour Relations Act, updates the law and commentary on the Rules, and also includes a useful Practical Guide for an Unfair Dismissal Claim in the CCMA.

Furthermore, the book provides valuable insurance against tripping up on technicalities. It explains the Rules of the CCMA in non-legal language.

Each Rule is fully reproduced and then explained in non-legal language, in line with the original aim of the CCMA – making it accessible to the layperson and freeing it from the legal technicalities that bedevilled the old Industrial Court.

The book is intended both for commissioners and professionals, as well as for the non-professional user of the CCMA, as a guideline on how to tread in what is often perceived as the province of lawyers. It is therefore not a technical legal text, with references and citations.

LABOUR LAW Rules! provides a highly accessible text on labour, equity, social security and skills development laws. It discusses these laws against a background of the country supporting the principle of ‘decent work’, high unemployment, the insufficient creation of sustainable and decent jobs, income inequality, all exacerbated by an increase in atypical work, skills shortages, as well as insufficient enforcement of laws.

“This book takes an innovative approach and breaks new ground in the dissemination of labour law. As a teacher and practical user of labour law in my policy and professional work, I am delighted to endorse and recommend this book. I have no doubt at all that readers will enjoy using it, and will find it to be an asset.”
Evance Kalula - Professor of Law, University of Cape Town, Chairperson, Employment Conditions Commission

This highly acclaimed guide, first published in 2002, has been thoroughly revised and updated. Practical advice on all stages of arbitration, from the pre-arbitration stage to the issuing of the award are covered as well as the basic legal principles concerning disputes over alleged unfair dismissal, the basics of the law of evidence and how to prepare for and present a case at arbitration.

In addition to this there are sections on the pitfalls of the law of evidence, applications for condonation and reviews – these often being the very issues on which the Labour Court so often sees applicants in review applications being tripped up. Furthermore, a discussion on unfair labour practice arbitrations has been included. No labour law practitioner or trade union representative should be without this book.

This book is now available.

Wild Law reveals how the governance systems of contemporary civilisations legitimise and promote the disastrous exploitation and destruction of Earth and why an Earth-centred approach is essential to address climate change and the accelerating degradation of the ecological systems on which we depend. Cormac Cullinan explains how to begin transforming industrialized societies to ensure that the pursuit of human wellbeing enhances the beauty, health and diversity of Earth instead of diminishing it.

This revised second edition includes a new preface, postscript and the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth proclaimed on 22nd April 2010 by the People’s World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth.

In these contexts appropriate governance is the imperative of the age. Economic globalisation in particular requires reassessments of state and corporate governance, as well as reconsideration of how the international political economy is governed – or not governed.

This book examines these themes from different disciplinary perspectives, in different national and institutional settings, and in terms of high theory and practical service delivery. It is topical and insightful and provokes thought on the governance challenges ahead.

Laurence Boulle is Director, Mandela Institute, and Issy Wolfson Professor of Law, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and Professor of Law, Bond University, Australia. He has published extensively in constitutional law, mediation and ADR, and international economic law and in late 2009 published The Law of Globalisation (Kluwer Law, The Netherlands)

This book is not merely a new edition, but a complete and significantly expanded rewrite. Comprising over 900 pages, this work is an expert and in-depth exposition of a complex subject that has become so important in the modern global economy. Already established over four previous editions as the pre-eminent work on the subject it is a 'must-own book' for all students and practitioners of tax, whether from a legal, business or accounting perspective. Professor Lynette Olivier and Michael Honiball are without peer in their understanding and clarity in this highly specialised field.

Five new chapters have been added on:

• Taxation of individuals
  
• Taxation of Companies and Dividends
  
• Taxation of Partnerships
  
• Cross-border VAT; and
  
• Interpretation of Statutes

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