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Contacts

Innis Du Preez
Director 

Qualifications

B Proc
Adv Diploma Labour Law

Focus Areas

  • Corporate Recoveries
  • Bank Foreclosures
  • Vehicle Asset Finance Recoveries
  • Insurance Recoveries and Litigation
  • Liquidations

Shakira Ahmed
Senior Associate

Qualifications

LLB (Nelson Mandela University)

Focus Areas

  • Equality Court Disputes
  • Evictions – Commercial/Residential
  • High Court Delictual Litigation
  • Insurance Law
  • Notarial and Surety Bonds
  • Notarial Law – Antenuptial Contracts
  • Personal Injury Law
  • Professional Indemnity Insurance Defence Law
  • Professional Negligence Law
  • Property Law
  • Land Disputes
  • Liquor Law
  • Liquidations and Insolvency
  • Deceased Estate Litigation
  • Correspondent Litigation
  • Immigration Law

Notable projects / judgments

  • Super Four Developers CC v Mallick and Others (1570/2020) [2021] ZAECPEHC 47 (24 August 2021)
  • Piet S C v The Vice Chancellor-Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University & 7 Others (CA136/2019)
  • Wesbank (a division of Firstrand Bank Ltd) v Ralushe (1149/2018) [2021] ZAECGHC 78; 2022 (2) SA 626 (ECG) (31 August 2021)

Natasha Boshoff
Director

Qualifications

LL B (University of Pretoria)

Focus Areas

  • Civil Law
  • Medical Law
  • Mediation
  • Evictions – Commercial/Residential
  • High Court Delictual Litigation
  • Insurance Law
  • Medical Defence Law
  • Notarial Law
  • Personal Injury Law
  • Professional Indemnity Insurance Defence Law
  • Professional Negligence Law
  • Property Law
  • Deceased Estate Litigation
  • Correspondent Litigation

Notable projects / judgments

  • Ferreira & Others v Baobab Agencies CC & Others ECP 15 April 2014 (Case no. 4026/12)
  • Road Accident Fund v Kerridge (1024/2017) [2018] ZASCA 151 (01 November 2018) – Reported

Hennie van Eck
Consulting Director

Qualifications

BProc

Focus Areas

  • Civil Law
  • Medical Law
  • Mediation
  • High Court Delictual Litigation
  • Insurance Law
  • Medical Defence Law
  • Personal Injury Law
  • Professional Indemnity Insurance Defence Law
  • Professional Negligence Law
  • Continued Professional Development Education (Seminars/Workshops)

Leonelle Conradie
Associate 

Qualifications

BA LLB

Focus Areas

  • Labour Law

Marco Boyens
Director

Qualifications

LLB
Master’s Degree (Labour Law)
Post graduate Diploma (Labour Law)

Focus Areas

  • Review Applications of arbitration awards
  • Arbitrations (CCMA & Bargaining Councils)
  • Disciplinary investigations and subsequent prosecution
  • Employee Relations
  • Drafting Employment Contracts and Policy Documents
  • Chairing Internal Disciplinary Hearings
  • Corporate Restructuring (Retrenchments)
  • Employment Law Compliance Audits
  • Exemption Applications
  • Contractual Disputes
  • Commercial employment transactions
  • Restraint of Trade disputes

Notable projects / judgments

  • Labour Court Judgement – SATAWU obo Kwezi v Prasa Passenger Rail Agency of SA t/a Metrorail PS31/13
  • Labour Court Judgement – Inxuba Yethemba Municipality v SALGBC & Others (PR 41/2020 [2022] ZALCPE 1 (31 January 2022).
  • Labour Court Judgement – Hansens Engineering (Pty) Ltd v Director General for the Department of Employment and Labour & others P133/22.
  • Published article in Law Journal (Obiter) – Sidumo Revisited – The Judgment of the Constitutional Court. Article on the development of the Review Test in South African Labour Courts.

Leon van Staden
Director

Qualifications:

BJuris
LLB
LLM (Labour)

Focus Areas

  • Employment Law for private companies and public entities
  • Municipal Law
  • Labour litigation- CCMA, Bargaining Councils
  • Labour Court
  • Labour Appeal Court
  • Constitutional Court
  • Review Applications
  • Collective Bargaining
  • Strike Interdicts
  • Advice on all employment related aspects- restructuring, employment contracts & policies
  • Chairing and prosecuting in disciplinary hearings

Notable projects / judgments

  • Abdullah v Kouga Municipality (2012) 5 BLLR 425 (LC). Acted for the Kouga Municipality where the Labour Court ruled that there is no “right to work” when a fixed term employee is paid out the remainder of the employee’s fixed term contract.
  • Acting as employer representative (prosecutor) in disciplinary hearings against senior municipal officials for various municipalities and other public entities.
  • Case number PR 160/13 (Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality). Represented the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality in a review application where the Labour Court confirmed that a City Manager is not authorised to change the job title and grading of a post of an employee and that re-grading and re-designation is not in conformity with Section 66 of the Municipal Systems Act.
  • Advising various groups of national and international companies on employment related issues.

Rowan Willcock
Director

Qualifications

BJuris
LLB
Agricultural Diploma

Focus Areas

  • Labour & Employemnt Law
  • Industrial dispute guidance
  • Labour Court appearances
  • CCMA representation
  • Arbitrations
  • Drafting contracts of employment, collective agreements, and related agreements.
  • Workshops and training.
  • Strategic advice during restructuring exercises.
  • Chairing internal enquiries.
  • Mediation services

Teresa Heasley
Senior Associate

Qualifications

B Proc
Conveyancer

Focus Areas

  • Deceased Estates
  • Conveyancing

Notable projects / judgements

Dubennette Moolman
Director

Qualifications

B Proc
Conveyancer
Notary Public

Focus Areas

  • Property Law
  • Conveyancing
  • Notarial Law
  • Contract Law pertaining to Property (Freehold, Sectional Title and Developments)
  • Registration of Mortgage and Notarial Bonds

Nathan Isaac
Associate

Qualifications

LLB

Focus Areas

  • Corporate and Commercial litigation and general legal advice
  • Contract Law
  • Insurance Law
  • Immigration Law
  • Administrative Law
  • Trust Law
  • Magistrates Court & High Court Litigation

Phiwokuhle Ncanywa
Director

Qualifications

LLB (Nelson Mandela University)

Focus Areas

  • Corporate and Commercial litigation and general legal advice
  • Administrative Law Litigation
  • Municipal Law
  • Environmental Law
  • Information Law
  • Spatial Planning and Land Use Law
  • Property law
  • Land Dispute Matters
  • Procurement Law
  • Construction Law

Notable projects / judgments

  • Emhlahlane Quarry Propriety Limited v The Minister: Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (the “DMRE”) (Case No. 449/2022)
  • Emhlahlane Quarry Propriety Limited v The Department of Transport Eastern Cape (Case No. 2554/21)
  • Pearson Place Body Corporate / Community Schemes Ombuds Service (case No. 1063/2022)
  • The execution of an Anton Pillar Order

Loren Burton
Director

Qualifications

LLB (Fort Hare)
Notary

Focus Areas

  • Magistrates Court Litigation
  • High Court Litigation
  • Corporate and Commercial litigation and general legal advice
  • Contract Law
  • Insolvency Law
  • Construction Disputes
  • Recoveries
  • Personal Injury Law
  • Ante Nuptial Contracts
  • Notarial Services

Notable projects / judgments

  • Phillipa Susan van Zyl N.O. v Road Accident Fund [2020] ZASCA 51; 2020 (4) SA 503 (SCA)

Cindy Jonker
Director

Qualifications

B Juris
Baccalareus Legum
Notary

Focus Areas

  • Corporate and Commercial arbitrations, litigation and general legal advice
  • Contract Law
  • Municipal Law
  • Trust Law
  • Liquor Law
  • Environmental Law
  • Administrative Law
  • Administrative Law Litigation
  • Corporate governance compliance and training
  • Energy Law

Notable projects / judgments

  • Conclusion of operator agreement for Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium (2010 – 2011)
  • Ironman Host City Agreement
  • Fishwater Flats Biogas Plant
  • Expansion facility at Nelson Mandela Bay Logistic Park Kariega on behalf of Benteler South Africa (Pty) Ltd
  • Successful negotiation of Municipal services agreement relating to the construction of Baywest Mall

Warren Parker
Managing Director

Qualifications

BComm
LLB
Notary
Conveyancer
Certificate in International Trade
H Dip Tax

Focus Areas

  • Corporate and Commercial arbitrations, litigation and general legal advice
  • Contract Law
  • Tax Law
  • Construction Law
  • Municipal Law
  • Public & Procurement Law
  • Administrative Law
  • Constitutional Law

Notable projects / judgments

  • Scribante Construction Proprietary Limited v Coega Development Corporation Proprietary Limited (Case No. 2679/06 SECLD)
  • Lafarge South Africa Proprietary Limited v Coega Development Corporation Proprietary Limited (Case No. 2917/04 SECLD)
  • MSC Depots (Pty) Ltd v WK Construction (Pty) Ltd and Another [reported – (157/10) [2011] ZASCA 115 (8 June 2011) (judgment delivered in 2010)]
  • Joubert Galpin Searle Inc v Road Accident Fund and 33 others [reported – [2014] 2 All SA 604 (ECP)]
  • Trencon Construction Proprietary Limited v Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Limited and Another [reported – 2015 (5) SA 245 (CC)]
  • WDR Earthmoving Enterprises and Another v Joe Gqabi District Municipality and Others [reported – [2018] ZASCA 72 (30 May 2018)]
  • Endulini Fruit Proprietary Limited v Elwandle
  • Represent various local, national and international clients in significant cross border and commercial transactions and running into several tens of millions of rand