Personal

18 November 1956, Windhoek Namibia

Spouse: Barbara Sher

Two children

Education

Matric: Centaurus High School, Windhoek

B.Iur : University of Port Elizabeth

Bachelor of Laws (LLB):  University of Cape Town (UCT)

Professional History

Junior lecturer: Commercial law Department, Law Faculty UCT (1981)

Admitted as advocate: 1981

Relief senior lecturer: Commercial law Department, Law Faculty UCT (1982)

Law officer: SAAF Training Command Pretoria (1983-1984)

Prosecutor: Wynberg Magistrate’s Court, Cape Town (1985-1988)

Regional Court prosecutor: Wynberg Regional Court, Cape Town (1986-1987)

State Advocate: Attorney-General’s Office, Pietermaritzburg and Cape Town (1988)

Pupillage: Cape Bar (1989)

Advocate, Cape Bar (1989-2017)

Reporter: Butterworths Constitutional & All SA Law Reports (1994-2000)

Appointed as arbitrator, Arbitration Forum (Cape Town) (1998)

Appointed as arbitrator, commercial panel, Arbitration Foundation of SA (2000)

Member of Electoral Tribunal, Western Cape (1994)

Member of Electoral Appeal Tribunal, Western Cape (1996)

 Acting judge (pro bono), Western Cape High Court (2004, 2008, 2009, 2010)

Appointed as senior counsel: 2015

Member of the Arbitration & Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, Cape Bar (2015-2016)

Acting judge, Western Cape High Court (2016-2017)

Judge, Western Cape High Court (2017- to date)

Acting Judge: Supreme Court of Appeal: 01 October - 30 November 2026

Awards, Honours and Other Activities/Publications

Member of the Western Cape Committee of Lawyers for Human Rights (1991-1993).

Trustee/Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Honeycomb Montessori School Trust (1999-2001).

Participant/moot court member, Pupil Advocacy Training, Cape Bar (2017 to date).

Member of the Practice, Library & IT and Criminal Committees, WC Division (2023 to date)

Author of ‘From Dompas to Disc - The Legal Control of Migrant Labour’ - Chapter 7 of Crime and Power in South Africa, by D Davis and M Slabbert (D Phillip) (1985).