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Name:   Michael de Broglio
E Mail: michael@onlinelaw.co.za
Website: www.onlinelaw.co.za

Michael de Broglio is a former Chairperson of the JAA, current Chairperson of the Gauteng Law Council and a councillor of the Law Society of the Northern Provinces as well as a National Director of the Racing Association.

His blog deals with professional affairs, Road Accident Fund issues, general legal topics and anything that interests him!


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Thursday
02-Nov-06
06:05 PM 		Law Society AGM 2007  
  Its the Law Society of the Northern Provinces AGM on Saturday and I understand it will be well attended. The meetings have become more boisterous in recent years and I think this one will set new standards when it comes to that!
I can tell you one thing I took part in last year and am back for this year - the Golf Day on Friday. It really is great and you can see the Law Society shirts stretched all over the Lost City course all day. Luckily I have a morning tee off time so at about 1pm tomorrow my game will be over.
The lastest word on the RAF? Various rumors that the regulations will be ready next week. Obviously then they will still have to be legislated.
Wednesday
25-Oct-06
12:46 PM 		AGM time tomorrow  
  Its AGM time tomorrow and I agreed to speak.  Its always easier to agree than to actually prepare and these days I am strapped for time.  The AGM should be well attended and hopefully you will all make it to it!
Sunday
15-Oct-06
10:17 AM 		A quote to remind myself  
 

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.  Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.  Don't let the noise of others' opinions drowned out your own inner voice.  And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."

Steve Jobs

That, after an awful, awful year of Gauteng Law Council is to remind me.  I hope it does you too. By the way, congrats to Hoossen on his new position as Chair of the Council - his calmness is desperately needed there.
Sunday
15-Oct-06
10:07 AM 		Sabina update  
 

Time flies... against so many measures.  I don't detail too much personal these days as I have had some crank e-mails over the past year from females, which in itselkf is unsuau; for the generally more balanced sex, but even against the non-private aspects of my life such as my beloved Sabina Park.  Once rated rated higher than Greys Inn who came 2nd in the QEII cup in Hong Kong, she retired earlier this year and is not waiting to see sire National Emblem.  She is apparently enjoying retirmement now, but it does take them time to settle down from racing.  Leigh may have other opinions but I am someone who has always believed in exercising animals and used to run time trials with my dogs - who went ballistic if I forgot about them or even put on running shoes without calling them.  Race horses, or certainly the ones with my trainers, are treated like they are top of the food chain - and you get bills to match - we are talking R5000 plus per horse per month.  So its cheaper to feed your dogs steak and bacon every meal than keep a horse in training!  Incidentally many of those involved in racing are involved in various fields with animals - including owning major game farms as with Mike Rattray of Mala Mala who owns South Africa's No.1 stallion, Western Winter, who at R200 000 a baby is doing quite well for himself...

This too is a year that has flown by - and what odds would you have given that the RAF Act would not be in place by this time?  Latest rumours are that a certain senior Advocate is involved in drawing up the regulations.  True?  I have no idea.  Right now I am wondering about whether my latest equine star, Festive Occassion, will be running on Thursday after she demolished the field in her last race...
Wednesday
04-Oct-06
04:53 PM 		Flight security  
  I wrote this in London following the foiled attempts to hijack planes in August and before standing through the queues which were not so bad, although my plane did leave about 3 hours late:

The new increased airport security makes a lot of sense to me. Sitting at home may make it seem like a lot of fuss.
Sit in a hotel in London and you will have a different perspective of that flight home. Quite honestly the increased security you here of in London does not exist  not on the Underground anyway. It amazes me, in a country with such lax security that there are so few officers at each tube station. It is surprising that for so long one has been able to carry another 7kgs (and I managed 20 once) of hand luggage on to a flight carrying who knows what. X-ray machines seem pretty useless generally and overall search standards are simply not good enough. England has excellent police forces, capable of proper investigation  which so many forces are not  but that is counterbalanced by an approach to personal freedoms that still put the country at risk. The truth is, whether they like it or not, they need to reduce some of their personal freedoms and have security more on a par with ours, which together with their vastly superior investigative abilities, should help them more readily target the homeless, useless and plain evil types who are so happy to die as long as they can take many of us with them.
Wednesday
30-Aug-06
12:13 PM 		You can't "correct" a law with a Gazette ad  
  My blog has been a bit quiet - although I have plenty to say!  The current run everything to death approach adopted by the Fund does make free time a bit hard though.  I received a call from an Advocate who does a newsletter on Bills etc and she absolutely agrees with our approach - that in fact the parts of the Act we do not agree with are in place and can't just be removed by a "correction" in the Gazette.  A case in the Cape will hopefully resolve this - but there is obviously risk attached to this work at the moment.
Wednesday
09-Aug-06
10:01 AM 		RAF  
  All seems quite on the RAF front for now - which is always a sign that its about to change of course! I was chatting to someone yesterday about the claim process and just in the last 10 years we have had changes from the agencies to the RAF itself and who knows what else.
Personally, I think the RAF themselves are running up the legal costs now like never before and it seems a bit hard to understand at times. One runs a case the whole way and ultimately receives what one had suggested - but to get there you have to run up legal costs on 2 sides and one wonders why reasonable offers can't just be made in the first place? Its not as if, in my experience anyway, the Road Accident Fund tenders are even right in 5% of the cases, and I get quite horrified when I see such a one sided match. To stop it being so one sided, and save precious resources of the RAF, all it takes is for claims handlers themselves to apply their minds - or be allowed to (I am not sure what the case is).
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