B.luris (University of South Africa, 1982);
LLB (University of Zimbabwe, 1985);
LLM (University of Witwatersrand, 1992);
Higher Diploma in Tax Law (University of Witwatersrand, 1994);
LLD (University of South Africa, 1997)

Professional Qualifications : Admitted and enrolled to practice as an Attorney, Notary and Conveyancer in the RSA.

Academic Works contributed to: (1) Cachalia et al, Fundamental Rights in the Constitution (Juta % Co.; Cape Town 1994);
(2) Davis, Cheadle & Haysom(eds), Fundamental Rights in Constitution (2nd ed, Juta & Co., Cape Town, 1997);
(3) Cheadle, Davis & Haysom(eds), South African Constitutional Law: The Bill of Rights (Butterworths, Durban, 2002).

Worked with and under Professor Jack Greenberg (who, together with the late Turgood Marshall of the NAAF, handled the litigation in Brown v Board of Education, Topeka, US 1954) at the Columbia Law School, Columbia University, New York, as a visiting scholar in 1986.

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B.Proc (Vista University)
LLB (University of Natal)
Postgraduate Diploma in Company Law (Wits)

Henry focuses on all aspects of employment and administrative law. He represents principally employers. He advises corporate and public sector clients on various aspects of employment law, inter alia, collective bargaining, strikes, reviews, rescissions, restructuring & unfair dismissals; industrial relations, litigation in private arbitrations, litigation in the CCMA, litigation in the Labour, Labour Appeal Courts and the High Courts.
Henry also has experience in conducting due diligence exercises in the context of commercial transactions, and has advised international corporate clients on the consequences of these transactions on employee benefits and on procedures to be followed in transferring employees and in the implementation of retrenchment exercises.

Practice Focus
• General Employment Law
• Discrimination Law Alleged unfair dismissals
• Reviews
• Strikes
• Public and Regulatory Law

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BProc LLB (University of Transkei)
LLM (Rhodes University)

Tembeka Ngcukaitobi has BProc LLB degrees from the University of Transkei (Umtata) and an LLM degree (Constitutional and Administrative Law) from Rhodes University (Grahamstown).

Tembeka is a Partner at Bowman Gilfillan. He specialises in employment law, constitutional law and administrative law. Before joining Bowman Gilfillan, he worked as a research assistant to the President of the Constitutional Court, Arthur Chaskalson. Tembeka’s main areas of work include providing advice and litigation for public sector clients in the areas of labour law, constitutional and administrative law. He is the lead partner providing advice to many public institutions and government departments including the South African Police Service, the Department of Public Service and Administration, the Gauteng Department of Education, the North West Department of Education, the North West Provincial Legislature, the Development Bank of Southern Africa, the Department of Home Affairs, the Department of Public Works and many others.

Tembeka has published in the fields of labour, constitutional and administrative law. He is also a member of the South African Law Reform Commission.

Practice areas:
Employment Law
Administrative Law
Constitutional Law
Litigation, Arbitration & Alternative Dispute Resolution
Forensic, White Collar Crime

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BA LLB (Stellenbosch) LLM (SA) PhD (Witwatersrand)

Daniel Pretorius is the head of Bowman Gilfillan’s public and regulatory law practice group. He specialises in constitutional and administrative law, as well as broadcasting and telecommunications law and judicial review litigation.

Daniel advised the Independent Broadcasting Authority on the licensing of the first private terrestrial free-to-air television service in 1998. After that licence was awarded to e-tv, he twice advised the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) on the amendment of e-tv’s licence. He advised ICASA on the renewal of M-Net’s subscription television broadcasting licence in 2002, and on the renewal and amendment of the SABC’s public sound and television broadcasting licences in 2003 and 2004. In 1999 and 2000, he advised ICASA on aspects of the licensing of the third mobile cellular service. After that licence was awarded to Cell C, he represented ICASA in High Court review proceedings arising from the licensing process, and advised ICASA on the drafting of Cell C’s licence conditions. In 2001, he advised ICASA on the drafting of amended licence conditions for mobile licensees MTN and Vodacom. In 2007, he advised ICASA on its submissions to the Department of Communications on the latter’s digital migration strategy and proposed amendments to the Electronic Communications Act. He has represented ICASA in the High Court, the Supreme Court of Appeal and the Constitutional Court.

In 2002, Daniel advised Nexus Connexion on its successful bid for a stake in the second national operator, Neotel. He also represented Nexus in its judicial review challenge to the Minister of Communications’ decision to award shares in Neotel to bidders that had been rejected by ICASA. In 2005, he advised MTN on its submissions to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Communications regarding the Electronic Communications Bill. In 2003 and 2004, he represented Telecom Lesotho in litigation in the Lesotho High Court against the Lesotho Telecommunications Authority. In 2004 and 2005, he was involved in the drafting of Tanzania’s broadcasting and communications law. In 2006, he drafted legislation providing for the privatisation of Botswana Telecommunications Corporation. In 2007, he advised Vivendi on its proposed acquisition of an interest in Cell C’s ultimate holding company, Oger Telecoms.

Daniel has advised various clients on gaming regulatory issues and has represented them before gambling boards and in litigation concerning gaming and lottery licences. He is also experienced in public procurement law, including the regulatory aspects of public-private partnerships, and has advised on the Public Finance Management Act and the Treasury Regulations.

Daniel has published numerous articles on administrative law, broadcasting law and freedom of expression in some of South Africa’s leading law journals. The Chambers Global publication The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2007) recommends Daniel as “one of the best public litigators in the country,” and says that clients appreciate that he “always gives excellent advice and delivers a high-quality product.”

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BA (Honours) (UCT)
BA (Honours) (Jurisprudence) (Oxon)

Chris practised in all areas of employment law from his admission as an attorney in 1996 and specialised in employment in the public law sphere. He advised extensively on the employment law implications of business transfers in the public and private sectors, privatisation initiatives, and outsourcing. Chris recently spent two years in the firm’s corporate law department in mergers and acquisitions, and has now returned to a dispute resolution role, providing advisory and litigation services in employment, public law, and ADR.

In the course of his dispute resolution practice Chris represented clients in High Court litigation over substantial public sector pension fund restructuring, involving several years of complex litigation and ADR; and in employment litigation at various levels including public and private employment law tribunals, in the Labour Court, Labour Appeal Court and Constitutional Court. His dispute resolution career also includes roles as adjudicator, having served as an acting Judge of the Labour Court and on private tribunals in employment disputes. He was accredited by CEDR as a commercial mediator in April 2007, and his mediation experience includes representing parties in mediations and serving as mediator in commercial disputes.

Chris is co-author of the leading South African work on the employment consequences of business restructuring and outsourcing, “Business Transfers and Employment Rights in South Africa”, Lexis Nexis Butterworths, 2004. He is also the author of two further employment law works, “Contracts of Employment”, Siber Ink 2001, and “Collective Bargaining Law”, Siber Ink 2004.

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BA LLB (Wits) MSc in Law and Development (London School of Economics)
Presently completing a H Dip Company Law at Wits

Claire Tucker is a director at Bowman Gilfillan and the head of the Environment, Mining, Energy and Natural Resources practice area. She presently practises primarily in regulatory and environmental law and is widely published on these matters.

Claire has worked on a wide range of regulatory matters including the drafting of laws and regulations, High Court review applications in respect of decisions on regulatory matters, the interpretation and application of statutes as well as commercial and transactional advice. She practises in and advises on all environmental issues, particularly atmospheric pollution prevention, waste regulation, water, land use planning and environmental impact assessments. Claire has a particular interest in the socio-economic aspects of the constitutional right to a clean environment. Her regulatory areas of specialization include access to information, data protection and privacy, medical and pharmaceutical regulation, food safety and international trade, corporate governance and financial services regulation.

Claire obtained a BA LLB from Wits and an MSc in Law and Development from the London School of Economics. While overseas she worked for two years in London at Leigh Day and Co on plaintiff actions against multinational corporations causing damage to people and environments in developing countries, particularly on the Cape plc asbestos case and the Thor Chemicals case. She also spent half a year at the United Nation’s Food Agricultural Organisation in Rome in the Legal Office researching and advising on international environmental law matters.

Practice Focus
• Regulatory
• Corporate Governance
• Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety
• Trade Law and Lobbying advice
• Pharmaceutical
• Information and Privacy
• Financial Services

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B.Proc
LLB

Hlengiwe is a partner in Bowman Gilfillan Corporate Department specializing in public sector procurement and regulatory law, IT Law, General Commercial and Public Private Partnerships.

Hlengiwe has represented state owned enterprises, government departments as well as international corporations and well known local companies in extremely varied industries including: Broadcasting and Telecommunications, Fuel and Lubricants, Pharmaceutical, Food and Food Processing, Advertising and Communications, Designer Labels and Perfumery and Information Technology and Communications.

Hlengiwe was a member of the task team that drafted the discussion paper on electronic commerce and recently reviewed HANIS (Home Affairs National Identification System) on behalf of the Department of Home Affairs. Hlengiwe has also been extensively involved in the review of the CabEnet Document Management System, Batho Pele Gateway Project and Seat Management System.

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BA LLB (UCT)
LLM (London)

Livia is a member of the public and regulatory law practice group, specialising in electronic communications and broadcasting and constitutional and administrative law. She joined Bowman Gilfillan as a candidate attorney in 2003 and was admitted as an attorney in 2005. Livia has advised a range of clients, including private entities and regulatory bodies, in judicial review and other proceedings in the High Court, Supreme Court of Appeal and Constitutional Court. Livia has advised the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa on its representations to the Department of Communications with regard to the digital migration strategy to be employed in South Africa, licensing processes, the conversion of licences in terms of the Electronic Communications Act, the amendment of licences and the drafting of regulations. She has also advised numerous private bodies on the regulatory requirements which are applicable in the communications sector. Livia has been involved in advising clients in the banking sector, particularly in relation to the revised banking regulatory scheme which has recently been implemented in South Africa.

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BA, LLB and LLM (University of Stellenbosch)

Guillermo Erasmus is a senior associate at the firm and holds BA, LLB and LLM degrees from the University of Stellenbosch having done international trade law as part of his LLM.

He has been involved in various competition and international trade law matters. His practice also focuses on various aspects of regulatory law and pharmaceutical law.

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BA (with Law) (Stellenbosch)
LLB (Stellenbosch)

Robyn joined Bowman Gilfillan in 2003 and was admitted as an attorney in 2005. She works in the Employment Law Department in Tembeka Ngcukaitobi’s team. The team mainly advises and represents public sector clients in the areas of employment law, constitutional law, and administrative law.

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LLB (University of the Witwatersrand)
LLM (Columbia University, New York City)

Reghana has an LLB degree from the University of the Witwatersrand and a general LLM degree from Columbia University, New York City.

Reghana is a Senior Associate at Bowman Gilfillan. She completed her articles at the Wits Law Clinic and after completing her LLM worked as a research assistant at the Constitutional Court to Justice TL Skweyiya. She works in the Employment Law Department in Tembeka Ngcukaitobi’s team. The team mainly advises and represents public sector clients in the areas of employment law, constitutional law, and administrative law.

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