About us

Neels Coertse 

Qualifications.

• L.LB [R.A.U.] awarded 26 April 1990.
• B.Iuris [R.A.U.] awarded 20 April 1974.
• Matric, Roodepoort Hoërskool December 1967. 

Admitted as Attorney, Notary & Advocate

• Admitted as Attorney 10 April 1979.
• Admitted as Notary 29 May 1979.
• Admitted as Advocate 17 April 1990.
• Re-admitted as attorney and notary 2 June 1998 [with the right of appearance in the High Court].

Working History.

• Military service: South African Air Force Gymnasium 1968.
• Clerk of the court, Johannesburg Magistrates Court: 1969.
• State Prosecutor, Johannesburg Magistrates Court.
• State Attorney, Johannesburg.
• Own practice as an attorney and notary, Johannesburg: 1979 - 1981.
• Assistant Executive Director, Gideons International, South-Africa, Pretoria: 1981 - 1983.
• Practicing again for own account: 1984 – 1990.
• Practicing as an advocate of the High Court of South Africa: 1990 - 1998. Gained experience as an assessor in criminal matters in the High Court of South Africa with Judge C.J. Claassen and the late Judge M. Labé.
• Re-admittance as an attorney and notary and have been practicing since for own account: 1998 to date.

Legal Library

• I have my own rather complete legal library:
• Transvaal & Witwatersrand High Court law reports.
• Appeal Court law reports.
• South African Law Reports from 1947 to 2009.
• Jutastat.
• Entrance to the South Gauteng High Court of South Africa’s law library.
• Internet research i.e. through:
• SAFLII.
• South African Government’s website.
• The Constitutional Court’s website.
• The Appeal Court’s website.

Relevant law articles published.

• De Rebus [“DR”]:
• July 2011:
• June 2011:
• May 2011:
• March 2005: “The MPRD Act.”
• January/February 2005: “Opinion: Expropriation in terms of the MPRDA? Another Scenario.”
• October 2001: “Money Laundering.” [Front page article].
• July 2001: “Letter to the Editor: MD Southwood SC.” [Reaction from the author on the book revue].
• May 2001: “The Compulsory Acquisition of Rights by Expropriation.” [Book review].
• May 1999: “Extension of Security of Tenure Act.”
• March 1999: “The Restitution of Land Rights Act and the Land Claims Court.”
• DR October 1987: “Huwelike, Kinders, Egskeidings: Huwelike [Wet op Bemiddeling in Sekere Egskeidingsaangeleenthede].”
• DR August 1985: Howe vir Klein Eise.
• DR May 1990: Uitstelle in strafsake: veral landdroshowe.
• Codicicillus [Jutas Business Law] 1998 59: “When Shareholders call it a day. The Voluntary winding-up of a company.”
• F&T weekly BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE 17 April 1998: “How to liquidate your own company.”
• Finansies & Tegniek Sakevernuf 17 April 1998: “Hoe om jou maatskappy self te likwideer.”
• F&T weekly BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE 19 June 1998: “Access to ‘Government Secrets’”
• Finansies & Tegniek Sakevernuf 19 June 1998: “Toegang  kom  tot  ‘regeringsgeheime’
• Orde Nuus Society News March/April 2005: “The Mechanic’s in the fix.”

Languages: read, talk & write

• Afrikaans
• English

Computer Literacy

• Word.
• Excel spreadsheet.
• Access Data basis 2000 [limited knowledge and appliance thereof].
• Substantial knowledge to do internet research [i.e. through SAFLII] in terms of:
• Southern African regions government’s websites to obtain related information.

Community Activities

• Member of the Gideons International, South-Africa.
• Member of the DRC church.

Hobbies

• Cabinetmaking.
• Photography [President of the Johannesburg Photographic Society.]
• Walking.
• Sculpting.
• Family & genealogical research. Editor of the monthly "Newsletter of the West-Gauteng Branch of the Genealogical Society of South Africa.
• Researching at the National Archives, Pretoria.