I fol­low a col­lab­o­ra­tive, prag­mat­ic and prac­ti­cal approach when draft­ing con­tracts, advis­ing on legal mat­ters and pro­vid­ing legal solu­tions that are tai­lored to each clients’ spe­cif­ic situation.

As a result of hav­ing run my own South African law prac­tice for more than 9 years, and hav­ing worked in Aus­tralia and South Africa, I bring a diver­si­fied skillset to the legal work done by the Swaab Con­struc­tion, Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning and Projects team.

I have expe­ri­ence advis­ing on project deliv­ery meth­ods, draft­ing and struc­tur­ing tem­plate suites of con­struc­tion con­tracts, nego­ti­at­ing upstream and down­stream con­struc­tion agree­ments, advis­ing on how to under­take gen­er­al con­struc­tion admin­is­tra­tion and sit­ting as a medi­a­tor in com­mer­cial and con­struc­tion disputes. 

Exper­tise

  • Con­struc­tion
  • Stra­ta

Sec­tors

  • Pri­vate Clients & Fam­i­ly Businesses
  • Real Estate & Construction
  • Ser­vices Pro­fes­sion­al & Non-professional

Expe­ri­ence

  • Draft & Review Con­struc­tion Agreements
  • Nego­ti­a­tion of Con­struc­tion Agree­ments & Disputes

  • Medi­a­tion of Con­struc­tion & Com­mer­cial Disputes

    Aus­tralia

  • pre­pare and amend var­i­ous Aus­tralian Stan­dards contracts
  • pre­pare and amend GC-21 Contract 
  • pre­pare and amend bespoke agree­ments and tem­plates agree­ments, includ­ing Minor Works Con­tract, Minor Con­sul­tan­cy Con­tract for con­sis­ten­cy with­in the con­tract, and amend­ments for com­pli­ance with the Aus­tralian Con­sumer Law and unfair con­tract terms

  • clients such as Own­er’s Cor­po­ra­tions in Stra­ta Schemes, land and build­ing own­ers and devel­op­ers (com­mer­cial, local coun­cil, res­i­den­tial), head con­trac­tors, sub­con­trac­tors, Stra­ta Man­agers, con­sul­tants, archi­tects, and designers

    South Africa

  • projects such as a joint ven­ture invest­ments, chlo­rine and dis­in­fec­tion plant, shop­ping cen­tre, hotel and con­ven­tion cen­tre, lux­u­ry homes and fit out works
  • clients such as inde­pen­dent con­sul­tants, archi­tects, engi­neers, foren­sic audi­tors, devel­op­ment man­agers and design­ers; prin­ci­pal / head builders and sub-con­trac­tors; land/​building own­ers; and res­i­den­tial homeowners

Roles, mem­ber­ships, and education

  • Non-award sub­ject law con­ver­sion (Equi­ty & Trusts) Uni­ver­si­ty of New Eng­land — with distinction
  • Non-award sub­jects law con­ver­sion (Prop­er­ty Law & Con­sti­tu­tion­al Law) Charles Sturt Uni­ver­si­ty — with distinction
  • Bach­e­lors of Law (LLB) Uni­ver­si­ty of Johannesburg
  • Bach­e­lors of Com­merce (B.comm) Rand Afrikaans University
  • Accred­it­ed medi­a­tor train­ing School of Medi­a­tion Lon­don & Asso­ci­a­tion of Arbi­tra­tors South­ern Africa (Civ­il Medi­a­tion Coun­cil Accredited)

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Publications

What are you actu­al­ly buy­ing into when you buy a Stra­ta Unit?

It is impor­tant to under­stand what you are respon­si­ble for and what you actu­al­ly own when look­ing at buy­ing into…

Statu­to­ry Duty of Care – Part 4 Design and Build­ing Prac­ti­tion­ers Act 2020 – ‘…the risk of harm was fore­see­able… not insignificant…not far-fetched or fanciful’

On 5 July 2024, His Hon­our Jus­tice Waugh hand­ed down his deci­sion in The Own­ers – Stra­ta Plan 80867 v Da Sil­va…

Alert | Con­struc­tion indus­try update: When is reme­di­al build­ing work exempt devel­op­ment? 11 July 2023

The Depart­ment of Plan­ning and Envi­ron­ment has pub­lished a ​‘Reme­di­al Build­ing Work – State Envi­ron­men­tal Plan­ning Pol­i­cy (Exempt and Com­ply­ing…

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