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Personal Injury Law - if you have suffered injury, loss or damage as a result of someone else's action or failure to act, you can claim damages or compensation from that person. A third party claim (also referred to as a Motor Vehicle Accident claim) is a claim against the Road Accident fund (RAF), which was established to pay compensation to you if you suffer injuries and losses as a result of negligent driving of a motor vehicle.
But as an editorial of De Rebus 85 of April 1999 pointed out, the allegations are damaging to the attorneys profession and it is in the interests both of the profession and those victims of road accidents who may have complaints about the way their cases have been handled, that there be proper channels for resolving such complaints.
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It covers cases in which the harm that may have been suffered by a particular client is not serious harm”, and cases in which the conduct of a particular attorney who may be investigated affects only the interests of that client and not those of any other person.
As the leading insurance and legal liability practice in South Africa, we advise domestic and international clients across all lines of insurance and reinsurance, including aviation, construction and engineering, financial institutions and D&, industrials and power, marine, healthcare, mining, personal injury, product liability, professional negligence, property, public liability and renewable energy.
The transactional experience of our attorneys, the breadth of our practice and the geographical reach of our offices in Pretoria the capital city of South Africa have allowed us to maintain a competitive leadership position, representing a broad array of public and private companies, private equity firms, governmental entities, and other institutions and individuals in almost every industry.
In one of two cases - which is described as being of massive public importance” - the South African Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (Saapil) is asking the Constitutional Court for leave to appeal against the ruling in favour of the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development.
These legal services are vital for those who present claims which assert that they have been injured - physically, psychologically, in terms of rights and reputation or in terms of property - as a result of the negligence of another person, company, government agency or any entity otherwise.
As a result of Francois' expertise and reputation for being client-focused and solution-driven with a long track record of being a successful mediator, negotiator and litigator he was the preferred and often the exclusive correspondent in KwaZulu-Natal for prominent legal firms from across South Africa.
In the application by Bobroff & Partners to the Constitutional Court for leave to appeal the De la Guerre matter, Bobroff says the fee agreement that his firm entered into with De la Guerre is a common law contingency fee agreement, and its enforceability depends on the constitutional validity of the Contingency Fees Act.
He has been doing insurance related litigation work including risk assessment and dispute and litigation handling since joining the firm in 1990, including for the state-owned Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) and Transnet SOC Ltd and their respective insurers, covering various aspects of rail related litigation including derailments, train accidents, systems failures and passenger injury claims.