Lexis® Practical Guidance: Recoveries and Debt Collection


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Practical Guidance Recoveries and Debt Collection provides users with updated, step-by-step guidance and practical aids that are needed to effectively deal with the complex legal landscape in the debt collection sector. Users are supported in all aspects dealing with the how-to’s on recovering a debt, as well as all legal processes, with access to pertinent and up-to-date legislation and various precedents. With all the need to know information and resources, this practice area serves to guide users through both the theoretical and practical legal aspects in South Africa.

  Topics
Covered
  • The National Credit Act
  • Initiating collection proceedings
  • Alternate dispute resolution
  • Prescription
  • Commencement of an action
  • Categories of debtors
  • Jurisdiction
  • Default judgments
  • Execution
  • Proceedings in terms of section 65

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Table of Contents

Find out
more
  Access
to
  • 13 Topic Overviews
  • Over 85 Guidance Notes
  • 99 Forms, Precedents and Checklists
  • Up-to-date Legislation & Case Law
  • Other Useful Resources such as flowcharts, external websites and additional readings
 
  Practical
Aids
  • Letter of demand for payment of fees
    for services rendered
  • Notice in terms of section 129 of the National Credit Act 34 of 2005
  • Certificate of compliance in terms of
    section 129(1) of the National Credit Act
  • Admission of liability and
    undertaking to pay
  • Settlement agreement
  • Summons and particulars of claim
  • Application for business rescue
  • Application for default judgment
  • Emolument attachment order
  • Consent to judgment
 
 

Authors

Sean Barrett
LLB (University of KwaZulu-Natal, PMB)