24 Practice Areas Under One Roof.
From trusts to debt review, twenty-four practice areas run on one discipline: a qualified case handler works your file, and an admitted Attorney reviews and authorises it before anything is drafted, signed, or sent.
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01
Trust Property Control Act
Trusts
Set up an inter vivos (family) trust or a testamentary trust in a will, and ongoing trust administration — trustee duties, the Master's registration, and annual compliance.
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02
National Credit Act
Debt Review
Restructure unaffordable instalments into one payment you can actually keep to, and stop further legal action from credit providers while you do. Runs from intake through a signed creditor proposal.
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03
Criminal record
Expungement
Clear a qualifying cannabis or drug-possession conviction. A short screening tells you where your matter likely sits before you commit to anything.
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04
Family law
Divorce
Full matter management — disclosure, financial reconciliation, settlement modelling, and the closure steps most firms forget. Opened and run directly by our team.
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05
Data protection
POPIA Compliance
A plain-English questionnaire scores your business against all 8 POPIA conditions, then generates your PAIA manual, privacy policy, and Information Officer registration pack.
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06
Maintenance Act
Unpaid Maintenance
Chase a spouse or parent who has stopped paying child or spousal maintenance — letter of demand, Maintenance Court application, or salary garnishee, escalated in the right order.
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07
Criminal law
Criminal Defence
Representation for the accused, from a first appearance and bail application through to plea and trial. A named Attorney takes the file from the first consultation — no waiting room hand-offs.
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Criminal law
Private Prosecution & Victim Representation
A watching brief and legal representation for a complainant or victim during a criminal case run by the state, and — in the rare cases where the NPA declines to prosecute — a private prosecution under section 7 of the Criminal Procedure Act.
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09
Wills & estates
Wills & Deceased Estates
A properly executed will drafted around your actual assets and wishes, or administration of a deceased estate — liaising with the Master of the High Court, the executor, and the beneficiaries.
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10
Property law
Eviction & Rental Disputes
PIE Act eviction applications for landlords, or a defence against one for tenants, plus rental housing tribunal disputes over deposits, repairs, and lease terms.
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11
Labour law
Labour & CCMA Disputes
Unfair dismissal and unfair labour practice referrals to the CCMA and Labour Court, for employees pursuing a claim or employers defending one.
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12
Road Accident Fund
RAF Claims
Compensation from the Road Accident Fund for injuries suffered in a motor vehicle collision — medical costs, loss of income, and general damages, within the RAF's own strict time limits.
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13
Civil litigation
Small Claims & Debt Collection
Recover money someone owes you — a letter of demand, a magistrate's court summons, or a small claims court referral, whichever route actually gets you paid.
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14
Domestic Violence Act
Domestic Violence & Protection Orders
An urgent interim protection order against an abusive partner or family member, and representation through to the final order hearing. If you are in immediate danger, call the police first.
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15
Immigration law
Immigration & Visas
Work, study, and relative's visas, permanent residence applications, and appeals against a Home Affairs refusal or an overstay finding.
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16
Property law
Property Transfer & Conveyancing
Transfer of ownership on a property sale, bond registration with your lender, and sectional title or HOA disputes — from offer to registration at the deeds office.
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17
Commercial law
Business Registration & Commercial Law
Company registration with the CIPC, founder and shareholder agreements, commercial contracts, and B-BBEE compliance structuring for a growing business.
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18
Delict / civil claims
Medical Negligence Claims
A civil claim against a practitioner or hospital for harm caused by substandard care, assessed against what a reasonably skilled practitioner would have done.
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19
Short-term & life insurance
Insurance Claim Disputes
Challenge a repudiated short-term or life insurance claim, including a complaint to the relevant Ombudsman before it goes anywhere near litigation.
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20
Consumer Protection Act
Consumer Protection Complaints
Defective goods, unfair contract terms, or a supplier refusing a refund — a complaint to the National Consumer Commission or a tribunal referral under the CPA.
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21
Land restitution
Land Claims & Restitution
Lodge or defend a claim under South Africa's land restitution and land reform framework, including representation before the Land Claims Court.
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22
Property practice / agency law
Legal Advice for Property Agents
On-call legal support for estate agencies and individual agents covering both rentals and sales — mandate and lease agreement review, FFC and trust account compliance, and disputes with landlords, tenants, or buyers.
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23
Workplace wellness & labour law
Employee Wellness
Combined social work and legal support for workplace wellbeing matters — incapacity due to ill health, harassment and workplace conflict, and reasonable accommodation — guiding both the employee and the employer through a fair, properly documented process.
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24
Regulatory & data compliance
Regulatory & Data Compliance
Compliance advisory and documentation across POPIA, PCI DSS, GDPR, FICA, King IV, ISO 27001, Companies Act governance, and CCPA — for businesses handling personal data, payments, or cross-border customers.
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This practice has been open for the past 20 years, serving the Gauteng market and extending to our entire Beautiful country of South Africa. It is led by Senior Advocate Dr Situmise Joyce Nkuna-Maleka, joined by a highly talented LLB graduate, and by an incredibly talented Software Engineer who builds and maintains the LegalTech systems behind this portal — keeping it private, secure, and running the way it should.
This portal is how our practice runs case work: it handles the repetitive 80% — intake, document collection, calculations, drafting — so the people qualified to give legal advice spend their time on the 20% that actually needs judgement. Every workflow ends the same way: a named, admitted Attorney reviews and authorises before anything leaves the office.
None of the twenty-four services above share a client's case file with the others — a debt review matter, a criminal defence brief, an RAF claim, a deceased estate, a trust, an immigration application, and a POPIA compliance file, for example, are all kept entirely separate, even when it's the same client.
Meet the Team
Here is exactly who is behind your file — and why that combination of experience sets us apart from every other law firm in South Africa.
Dr Situmise Joyce Nkuna-Maleka
Senior Advocate & Practice Lead TODO: add Bar/roll admission number (ADVOCATE_ROLL_NUMBER in .env)Eight postgraduate degrees spanning law and compliance, built up over years of practice — the kind of breadth that catches how a matter in one practice area affects another before it becomes a problem. That cross-disciplinary instinct protects clients' interests before small issues turn into costly, drawn-out legal setbacks.
Tumi Nkuna
LLB Graduate Paralegal & Resident GeniusAlready deep in the supervised, practical work of the profession — deliberately building the hands-on experience the Bar expects to see before admission, not just the theory behind it. That close supervision means clients always get careful, thoroughly reviewed legal work at every stage, well before full admission, always under senior counsel's guidance.
Douglas Bailey
Software Engineer & Technology LeadAn IT veteran from before AI was mainstream, fluent across five languages, with recent hands-on DevOps experience and two years spent testing frontier and local lightweight AI models. He joined the practice to keep its technology — and how it is used — fit for clients, not just fashionable.
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