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Adams & Adams rated top firm
26/02/1999

The South African business magazine Professional Management Review (PMR) conducted a second national law survey in the latter half of 1998, as a follow-up to its 1997 survey, by consulting 200 of South Africa's top companies. Adams & Adams received the highest rating for intellectual property law.

Likewise in the international arena, Adams & Adams was, for the second year running, rated first for patents and second place for trade marks in the 1998 survey by Managing Intellectual Property (MIP). The poll was conducted in 30 leading jurisdictions amongst 3000 senior IP practitioners in both industry and private practice.

The 1997 MIP award was handed over to Adams & Adams' Chairman, Charles Stewart, at a ceremony coinciding with the meeting of the International Trade Mark Association (INTA) in Boston, USA in May 1998.
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   Featured Case Law Promotional Competitions under the Consumer Protection Act
For just over a decade, promotional competitions have been regulated by the Lotteries Act, 1997, which has been in effect since 1 March 2000. Attorneys, in-house counsel and other legal practitioners have become used to advising on the legality of promotional competitions with reference to section 54 of the Lotteries Act and the regulations promulgated under that section. But when the Consumer Protection Act, 2008 (“the CPA”) comes into force on 31 March 2010, as expected, the regulation of promotional competitions in South Africa will change significantly.

The CPA will replace the Lotteries Act’s current definition of “promotional competition”. In future, section 1 of the Lotteries Act will define a “promotional competition” as having the meaning set out in section 36 of the CPA. 		  Featured person Featured person
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The firm practises directly in several Southern African countries and through long-established associates in others.