In 2021, our client mandated Rawson Property Group via its Camps Bay franchise to source a vetted, long-term tenant for his luxury property in Llandudno, Cape Town. Rawson secured a British national, Darren Russell, and explicitly assured our client that their internal verification processes had been successfully completed.

In August 2018, Media24 (via NB Publishers/Tafelberg) released The Lost Boys of Bird Island. The book accused three apartheid-era cabinet ministers of flying young boys to a rocky outcrop off Gqeberha for horrific abuse. Two of the accused were dead. The third was our client, Barend du Plessis, the former Minister of Finance.

In 2017, I was retained to represent over 200 banking clients who had suffered severe financial losses due to coordinated internet banking and SIM-swap fraud. The targets of this litigation included South Africa’s major financial institutions, ABSA, Standard Bank, FNB, Nedbank, and Capitec, alongside telecommunications providers. Individual client losses ranged from R43,000 to over R1.8 million.