The Lawyer and the Layman™️
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The Lawyer and the Layman™️
A fun laidback Podcast hosted by Journalist Yolisa Mkele (the Layman) and Family Law Expert Jennifer Stoler (the Lawyer). The pair translates South African legalese into plain English. The goal is simple: Educate, Empower, Uplift and Entertain. There will be none of that highfalutin legal speak here...
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Workplace Sexual Harassment AKA What’s The Opposite of Team Building?
Has your boss or a colleague ever gotten a little too handsy? Have you ever felt like your position hinged on something a little more sleazy than pure...
Breaking Up While Making Up
After a brief(ish) hiatus we are back and better than ever. To prove it, Jennifer, Yolisa and legal professional Dylan Jagga discuss everyone’s favour...
Mediation Part 2 AKA Meeting Halfway
We’re back with Charles Mendelow in the second part of our mediation special. This time we go in depth with mediation as it relates to family law and...
Mediation AKA Sweet Talk
Bonjour everybody, we’re back with another delicious episode of the world’s favourite legal show. Today Jennifer and Yolisa speak to Charles Mendelow,...
Domestic Violence During Lockdown
With instances of domestic violence reportedly surging during lockdown and many people now being stuck with abusive partners, we thought it would be g...
Access To The Courts AKA Law In A Time of Lockdown
Are you going through a divorce? Do you find yourself needing to going to court for some reason? Well that may be trickier than you thought. This week...
Co - Parenting During COVID AKA Dont Get Vexed With Your Ex
We’re back with more of the quarantine coverage and this week’s is an important one, raising kids under lockdown. Life is complicated when you have ki...
The Alcohol Ban v.s The Constitution AKA A Potential Sauce Of Hope
We’re back!! After something of a hiatus, we have finally returned to continue our crusade to turn translate legalese into something resembling englis...
Subrogation AKA Insuring Your Co-operation
Guten tag fellow lawyers and laypeople, we’re back and this week jennifer and Yolisa are joined by insurance and property magician Musa Mathebula to t...
Fines & Penalties AKA What the Managing Agents Won’t Tell You
We’re back again and so is Sectional Titles Queen Lisa Schmidt. Today we get to discussing fines and penalties in sectional titles/home owners associa...
Marriage May Be Changing
Bonus content alert! Jennifer was on ENCA recently speaking about potential changes in the laws around marriages. So here is a quick in depth explaine...
Legally Speaking, Men Are Trash
This week Yolisa and Jennifer are joined by returning guests Omphile Boikanyo and Siphosethu Khumalo to try and figure out if men really are trash? Th...
Defamation VS Freedom of Speech
A lot has been happening in our country over the past few weeks and Jennifer and Yols are here to talk about it. This week they’re joined by Omphile B...
Cannabis and Kids AKA Underaged Stoning
What happens if your kid gets high? When they drink we slap them on the wrists or tell them to “just do it in front of us”. Should we treat weed the s...
Cannabis and Parents AKA Poppa Was a Rolling Stoner
Can you have your child taken from you if you’re a little stoned in their presence? This week Yolisa and Jennifer are joined by the yoda of South Afri...
Women’s Month Special AKA Empow(her)
WE’RE BACK. Our crazy work lives meant we had to take a step back for a second but we are back and brilliant! This week Jennifer and Yolisa do a quick...
Buying Into A Sectional Title AKA Parking Bays Sold Separately
On this week’s episode Jennifer and Yolisa are joined by returning guest Lisa Schmidt to discuss the ever so sneaky ways in which buying into a sectio...
To Air BnB Or Not To Air Bnb AKA Turning Your Home Into a Hotel
This week Yolisa is out of action leaving Jennifer to takes the reins and she does it with aplomb 😁. She is joined by seasoned legal magicians Lisa S...
POPI For Sectional Titles AKA We Don’t Take Kindly To Your WhatsApp Groups
This week Yolisa and Jennifer are joined by legal wizards Lauren Squier and Lisa Schmidt as the gang attempts to decode what POPI means for sectional...
POPI For Digital Marketers AKA The Perils Of Data Collection
Bongiorno, today Jen and Yols are joined by digital marketing expert Steven Slotow to discuss the Protection of Public Information Act and what it mea...
The Dreaded Divorce AKA Firing Your Spouse
Your differences have become irreconcilable and after some tough conversations with HR you have decided that it’s time to sack your spouse. This week...
Misrepresentation In Insurance AKA Why lying to your insurer is worse than lying to your spouse
Lauren Squier is back! This time she helps Yols and Jen unpack why lying about ANYTHING to your insurer will land you in more hot water than a lobster...
CBD Oil of Olay
Jen and Yols are joined by CBD expert Jonny Green (not to be mistaken with Bravo) to talk about weed oil and all its ramifications. Enjoy 😉
Small Claims Court AKA Judge Judy’s Office
Remember that time Chad borrowed money from you? Now it’s been 6 months and you’re still waiting for your randelas. In the meantime old Chad is off bu...
The Lawyer and The Layman: Sectional Title Insurance AKA Who to Trustee When Lightning Strikes
We were MIA for a week but we’re back like that ex you can’t seem to shake. This week we’re joined by sectional insurance gurus Lauren Squier and Divi...
The Lawyer and The Layman: Harassment and Protection Orders
Are you being harassed or maybe in an abusive relationship? Today we tackle how one goes about getting a “restraining order”AKA protection order and w...
The Lawyer and The Layman: Wills AKA your afterlife’s promise of paradise
Who gets what when you die and how? We love wondering about this kind of thing when it comes to Oprah but what about us? How much money do you need to...
The Lawyer and The Layman: Elections Special AKA to expropriate the land or nah?
It’s a long one but good one. Jennifer and Yolisa discus the elections, who to vote for and why Mmusi may or may not be a puppet. We also talk discuss...
The Lawyer and The Layman: Roadblocks AKA the cold drink money episode
We’re back! We missed last week because of technical issues but we’re back and spilling all the tea about what happens when you get stopped at a roadb...
The Lawyer and The Layman: How to get weed without gardening AKA are you a dealer or a healer?
Its the 4/20 episode! Jen is out of town 😞 but our resident legal weed correspondent Andrew Lawrie is here to fill us in on what How to LEGALLY get m...
The Lawyer and The Layman: Cannabis AKA The Devil’s delicious lettuce part 1
4/20 is coming up so we’ve decided sprinkle some weed over our topic list for the next few episodes. For the first of our ganja specials we are joined...
The Lawyer and The Layman: Cohabiting AKA why common law spouses and unicorns are the same thing
Thinking of taking your relationship to the next level and moving in together? Well slow down there Casanova. This week we discuss cohabitation, debun...
The Lawyer and The Layman: Ante-nuptial Contracts A.K.A Medical Aid for your marriage
This week we’re getting stuck into ANCs. It turns out those letters aren’t just reserved for a political party, they are also legalese for Ante-nuptia...
The Lawyer and The Layman: Fathers rights, Co-parenting and reducing drama
OMG we finally did it. Welcome to the world premier of The Lawyer and The Layman a podcast where Family Law expert Jennifer Stoler (The Lawyer) and Su...