by Dianne Bayley | Mar 8, 2023 | Featured Articles
The advent of large language models, including ChatGPT, which was launched by Open AI in November 2022, is remarkable, writes Carla Collett, Partner at Webber Wentzel. ChatGPT is an AI chatbot system that interacts with users in real-time and in a conversational way....
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 28, 2022 | Security and Legal
On 25 July 2022, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the Government’s intention to implement various “bold, courageous and decisive action[s] to close the electricity gap” in South Africa and bring an end to loadshedding. We unpack the legal and...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 5, 2022 | Security and Legal
The Labour Court has confirmed in a recent judgment that terminating a contract of employment can be invalid, but it does not always follow that employees are entitled to jump the queue at the Labour Court for redress, and certainly not in circumstances in which the...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 6, 2022 | Security and Legal
If boards of directors put financially distressed companies into business rescue earlier, more options would be available, and more companies could be saved, write Ryan Smith & Lara Kahn, Partners at Webber Wentzel.Although fewer companies are commencing business...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 25, 2022 | Workplace 2020
SARS announced in February 2020 that it was taking the first steps towards becoming a future revenue authority informed by data-driven insights, self-learning computers, AI and interconnectivity between people and devices, writes Joon Chong, Partner at Webber Wentzel....