South Africa & the Millennium Time Bomb

Author:: L. Michalson
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The technical aspects of the Year 2000 problem have been exhaustively covered in many books, but there are very few that examine the legal consequences of the problem. This text provides guidance on the legal issues from a South African perspective. After a brief overview of the technical aspects of the 'Y2K bug', the author focuses on the following: contract law - principles, business relationships, and remedies for defective goods; delict; the role and duties of directors; the role of auditors; insurance; the legal audit; and compliance letters litigation and other forms of dispute resolution. In the appendices a number of important documents are reproduced, including the BSI Year 2000 compliance definition, an example of a Year 2000 compliance questionnaire, examples of a Year 2000 compliance statement and warranty, the JSE Year 2000 compliance disclosures, the South African Insurance Association's millennium general exclusion, and information on shrink-wrap agreements, and mergers and acquisitions.

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Publisher:: Francolin Publishers (Pty) Ltd
ISBN:: 9781868590599
Publication date:: January 1998
Length:: 210mm
Width:: 148mm
Thickness:: 9mm
Weight:: 185g
Edition:: 1
Pages:: 144
Readership:: Undergraduate

Review

OPINIONS AND REVIEWS

SOUTH AFRICA & THE MILLENNIUM TIME BOMB

A guide to the legal issues

Lance Michalson

SA Computer Magazine, Philippa Richardson

Lance Michalson provides an insightful and, importantly, local guide to some of the many legal issues that he believes will arise from the inability of certain companies to fulfil their business responsibilities and contractual duties due to hardware or software faults ...

Michalson's thesis is based on the assumption that the Year 2000 will bring with it not only the possibility of technical problems but also, unfortunately, a deluge of legal problems. These, writes the author, will emerge not just from a company's inability to get its systems in order, but also from the inability of its suppliers and business partners to do the same thing.

As terrifying as all this may sound, South Africa & the millennium time bomb is by no means a cheap exercise in shock therapy, and Michalson is not in the business of chaos. His intention, rather, is to provide the reader with what he believes are the necessary tools to handle another dimension of the Y2K problem.

Y2K Cinderella Project, Chris Anderson

This is a very useful book for any serious Y2K Project Manager or Practitioner and I can heartily recommend it as a useful summary and guide to the subject.

The topics covered are the basic issues relating to Contract and Delict and a few new wriggles that nobody had thought about until now. There is a section on alternative dispute resolution, a subject currently dear to my heart.

There is also an interesting appendix on the probable effect of shrinkwrap agreements in SA, the first time I have ever seen this topic in print.