Poor hail court garnishee ruling

‘More than 8 million people are battling with debt repayments’ CONSUMER experts have welcomed Tuesday’s constitutional court decision on emoluments attachment orders say­ing it will benefit millions. The court ruled the emolument attachment orders also known as gar­nishee orders should only be issued by magistrates and not clerks of courts as was the case previously. […]

Ruling on garnishee orders to cut lending

Judgment to benefit the poor Siseko Njobeni THE CONSTITUTIONAL Court judgment on garnishee orders was likely to reduce the risk appetite of lenders and could see “risky” individuals struggle to obtain finance, Fincheck chief executive, Mi­chael Bowren said yesterday On Tuesday the court ruled that aspects of the enforcement of garnishee orders were un­constitutional. Various […]