Samantha is an experienced practitioner with a wide variety of experience both in the UK and South Africa. She is a barrister, mediator and arbitrator with over 15 years’ experience, and holds a particular passion for family law.
Family Law
Samantha has a practical and proactive approach to the issues in her clients' cases and is able to explain simply the legal complexities of litigation.
Samantha has extensive experience in child arrangements in particular contact and residence, as well as ancillary relief. She also has assisted her clients to deal with matters involving foreign elements.
She has extensive experience in matters that involve domestic and substance abuse and is frequently instructed to represent clients in fact-finding and final hearings. Having started her practice in criminal law, Samantha is a fierce advocate and has effective cross-examination skills to assist when it comes to defending her client’s positions.
She has substantial experience in civil law practice from regularly advising and representing clients in various County courts and tribunals up to the High Court, and is often instructed in drafting work, preparing applications, draft orders, witness statements and skeleton arguments.
Mediation
Samantha is an internationally accredited mediator and is CMC registered. She has vast experience and has mediated in multiple jurisdictions with a particular focus on commercial and workplace disputes. She has mediated and co-mediated numerous disputes that have included commercial, employment, workplace, housing, and family law.
Samantha has conducted mediations for large corporations, small institutions, and cross-border disputes. She has conducted mediations both in person and online. Samantha has a high success rate of settlements for the mediations she is involved in with most cases settling on the day. She also has a master’s from the University of Cape Town in commercial law.
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