FAQ

  • Civil litigation (in High and Magistrates Courts)
  • Matrimonial and family actions
  • Criminal court cases
  • Building disputes
  • Property and sectional title disputes
  • Arbitration and mediation
  • Debt and rent collection
  • Personal injury claims
  • Professional negligence claims
  • Liquidations/insolvency
  • Land occupier/restitution claims
  • Disputes involving various kinds of contracts
  • Administration of deceased estates
  • Drafting of wills
  • Establishment of trusts
  • Administration of trusts
  • Curatorship appointments
  • Estate planning
  • Tax
  • Ante-nuptial contracts
  • Divorce
  • Children – care and contact
  • Maintenance
  • Matrimonial property proceedings including change of property regime
  • Adoptions
  • Companies and close corporations (including drafting of new Memoranda of Incorporation/Shareholder’s Agreements)
  • Drafting commercial contracts
  • Business and corporate transactions
  • Commercial conveyancing
  • Business Sale agreements
  • Purchase of company shares
  • Lease agreements
  • Trusts
  • Tax
  • Partnerships
  • Commercial, industrial and residential conveyancing
  • Sectional title schemes
  • Shareblock schemes and conversions to sectional title
  • Time share
  • Fractional ownership
  • Township development, town planning and rezoning
  • Mortgage and notarial bonds

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  • Arbitration
  • Mediation

Arbitration is often quicker than going to court, and applies to any legal dispute. Evidence is led by each party in what amounts to a simplified form of court proceedings, where the parties appoint and pay for a private lawyer to make a final ruling once he has heard evidence for both sides.

Mediation is an entirely different way to approach a legal dispute.  The parties negotiate their own solution with the help of a trained mediator.  New court rules are about to be introduced in South Africa which will make it obligatory for disputing parties to try and reach a mediated settlement and so remove the expense and time of continuing with their court case.