Civil Litigation

A civil litigation attorney will take you through the entire process of filing and pursuing a non-criminal lawsuit. An attorney can also advise you on whether your case is best suited for court, or can be handled better outside of the courtroom. Litigation is time sensitive and and we continuously strive to improve our response time, which is highly valued by our correspondent firms. Cordial professional relations with all key personnel in the various courts is therefore near the top of our priorities. Read More

Corporate Law

Corporate law is that field of law that regulates the forms of business enterprises and includes the legislation and regulations corporations are subject to. Compliance with the myriad of ever increasing rules and regulations increase risk and are a burden to many entrepreneurs. Many businesses have full time staff dedicated to compliance in order to minimize the risks associated with fines or other sanctions. This presents a problem to small businesses and often compliance risks may be mitigated by having an attorney conduct a compliance audit and then devise a plan to comply along the lines of a managed and ongoing project. Read More

Constitutional Law

South African constitutional law is the area of South African law relating to the interpretation and application of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa by the country's courts. All laws of South Africa must conform with the Constitution; any laws inconsistent with the Constitution have no force or effect. Read More

Criminal Defence

South African criminal law is the body of national law relating to crime in South Africa. In the definition of Van der Walt et al., a crime is "conduct which common or statute law prohibits and expressly or impliedly subjects to punishment remissible by the state alone and which the offender cannot avoid by his own act once he has been convicted."[1] Crime involves the infliction of harm against society. The function or object of criminal law is to provide a social mechanism with which to coerce members of society to abstain from conduct that is harmful to the interests of society. Read More