The judgment from a school perspective, it is a bit of a mixed bag. Mostly importantly the court has held that parents are jointly and severally liable for their child’s school fee, as opposed to jointly liable, which is what the court below had held. If parties are joint liability, then they cannot be sued […]
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The Department of Basic Education released the Draft Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill on the 13th October 2017 , calling for comments by the 10 November 2017. The Bill covered many aspects covering the administration of public schools but as a firm that deals with large numbers of public school fee collections we decided to focus
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(Updated 15 March 2021) One of the common misconceptions of divorced or separated parents at public schools is the issue of the effect of a divorce or maintenance order, where there is a court order ordering the one parent to be responsible for school fees. So when the school asks the parent who is not
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