John MacRobert has served four stints as an Acting Judge in the Labour Court and as an Acting Judge in the Western Cape High Court from October 2012 to June 2013. He is an experienced arbitrator, mediator (labour and commercial), trainer, facilitator and chair of disciplinary and other inquiries and has been on TOKISO Dispute Resolution’s panel since inception and prior thereto its forerunner IMMSA since 1990.

He has a BA.LLB from UCT, an LLM from The University of London, King’s College in Employment, and Administrative Law and Human Rights and a Graduate Diploma in Advanced Labour Law from UCT.

He has taught Collective Bargaining, Individual Employment Law and Appropriate Dispute Resolution at Master’s level at UCT and delivered papers at numerous conferences and seminars.

He is a past President of the Cape Town Attorneys Association; previous Chair of the Western Cape Institute of Race Relations; co-founder of the Western Cape Chapter of SASLAW; he served on the National Steering Committee of the Pension Lawyers Association for a number of years and on the Cape law Society specialist committee on alternative dispute resolution.

He has been listed for a number of years in the peer reviewed PLC Which Lawyer and The Experts Guide to the World’s Leading Employment and Labour Lawyers as highly recommended as a Labour and Employee Benefits lawyer.

John began his practice John MacRobert Attorneys in June 2016, joined by senior candidate attorney Amanda Kunene.

Ashraf Mahomed has more than 20 years post admission experience in the fields High court and Magistrates court litigation, constitutional law, administrative law, public law, labour law, alternative dispute resolution (mediation, arbitration, negotiation and facilitation), land reform law and project management.

Ashraf Mahomed is an attorney with rights of appearance in the High Court. He currently practices under the firm Ashraf Mahomed Attorneys in Cape Town. He has acquired experience in most areas of the law, but specialist expertise in high court litigation, constitutional law, administrative law, public law, alternative dispute resolution (mediation, arbitration and facilitation), land reform law and project management. Ashraf has represented high profile clients as well as poor individuals and communities. He was appointed as an acting judge of the High Court (Western Cape Division) for two terms and dealt with various complex civil and criminal cases. Ashraf is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Public Law at the University of Cape Town. He is the principle author and editor of two books on land tenure law, and has attended various law conferences both locally and internationally. He is a lecturer Constitutional Law on the Practical Legal Training course run under the auspices of LEAD LSSA/UCT. Previously he was an equity director of CTH Inc. and prior to that he served as the provincial head of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC). He also practiced as an attorney at the Legal Resources Centre in Cape Town, focusing on high cour ltigation, land, housing and development cases. Ashraf currently serves as a board member of the Dullah Omar Institute (DOI) for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights at the University of the Western Cape. He is a longstanding member of the National Association of Democratic Lawyers (NADEL), formerly the branch chairperson in the Western Cape and he presently serves on its national executive. Ashraf previously served two terms as President of the Cape Law Society (CLS) and on various ad hoc committees. He currently serves on Legal Practice Council (WC) Disciplinary Committee and the PVTC and Admissions Committee (previously the Candidate Attorneys Committee).

David Loxton (BCom LLB (UCT), MBA (UCT)) is a qualified attorney and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). He started his career as state prosecutor dealing with all sorts of street crimes, and later worked as partner/director of South Africa’s most esteemed law firms with an initial specialisation in employment law, and later in white-collar crime. He now acts as independent legal consultant for a number of well-known South African brands as the CEO of Loxton Forensics.

His expertise comprises a mixture of forensic investigations, regulatory compliance, employment law, prosecuting high-level disciplinary hearings, litigation, and cybercrime.

Dave enjoys giving back to the legal community by serving on industry body committees, providing training, and writing articles for a variety of publications.