LEGAL TALK with Hahn & Hahn Attorneys: Municipal Billing Under the Microscope - The Johannesburg Water Case
In this episode, Eon speaks to Jaco Hamman from Hahn & Hahn Attorneys about a significant High Court judgment involving Johannesburg Water and municipal effluent billing.
The case centred on whether a municipality can ignore readings from a properly installed and functioning effluent meter and instead bill a business using estimated water consumption. The court found that where direct measurement is available, the municipality is required to use it, resulting in a judgment of more than R6.3 million, plus interest and costs.
Jaco explains what the judgment means for businesses, what ratepayers…
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