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Rakhee Bhoora, Partner | Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Rakhee Bhoora

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Effective litigation strategy requires clarity of purpose, flexible tactics and excellent execution.
Jurisdiction South Africa, 2001
Language(s) English, Afrikaans
Office(s) Johannesburg
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Overview

Rakhee Bhoora is recognized for her expertise in litigation and dispute resolution with a focus on administrative and constitutional.

She handles high profile and complex litigation. This comes with long hours, intense pressure, demanding deadlines and great responsibility. Her key strengths are communicating and simplifying complex issues into easily understandable terms for client; planning legal strategy and solutions; writing reports and opinions and drafting court processes. Her area of expertise is inextricably linked to the public sector and the exposure has meant onboarding matters to ensure that the need for progressive infrastructure development, investment pull and economic sustainability is driven. In these evolving and progressive markets, she has made it her business to understand the clients' business needs and challenges thus ensuring that appropriate and sound legal strategy complement day to day business requirements, operations and management. She is  focus driven, goal oriented and always looking to expand business opportunities and partnering up with clients to ensure an optimal business model is achieved and sustained.

In addition to this, she takes great pride in mentoring junior lawyers and this is a value add for the core organisational structure. She has also had the opportunity to work with and lead some of the finest diverse and dynamic lawyers.

Known for her in-depth understanding of road infrastructure framework, including technical, financial and economic structures, Rakhee is also experienced in the legislative requirements applicable to large infrastructure development. With a particular focus on infrastructure development, she counsels and represents companies in contractual and tender disputes.

She has been involved in advising traditional communities and traditional councils in mining, community and traditional leadership disputes and she have a good understanding of the Traditional Leadership legislation.

Skills

  • Commercial litigation experience
  • Investigation skills
  • Environmental laws and litigation
  • Constitutional and Administrative law
  • Public sector and Governance
  • Tender and Procurement disputes
  • Discovery processes
  • Advising on media releases
  • Advising traditional communities
  • Planning legal strategies and business solutions
  • Advising on internal tribunal appeals
  • Opinions, Memoranda and Reports

Achievements

  • Recognised nationwide in South Africa in Dispute Resolution, Chambers Global 2024
  • Chambers and Partners, Chambers & Partners 2022 to 2023
  • Recognised for her expertise in the field of Dispute Resolution. , The Legal 500 Europe Middle East and Africa 2017

Career & Education

Education

  • LLB University of Pretoria
  • BProc University of Pretoria

Memberships & Affiliations

  • Member Legal Practice Council of South Africa

Knowledge

  • Grounds for Appealability: Evolution of Appeal Grounds in Landmark Cases, 12/13/2024
  • Balancing Fairness and Justice in Unlawful Administrative Action, 12/5/2024
  • Disrupt or Conform: Striking the Perfect Balance Between Innovation and a Regulatory Landscape, 11/12/2024

News

Publications

  • South Africa: The Constitutional Challenge To The Road Accident Fund Act 19 Of 2005, 7/14/2011
  • Covid 4.0 - the digital transformer, Engineering News
  • Tender for the provision of social grants declared invalid and new tender process to be initiated
Article South Africa: The Constitutional Challenge To The Road Accident Fund Act 19 Of 2005 Mondaq
Article, Author Covid 4.0 - the digital transformer Engineering News
Article, Author Tender for the provision of social grants declared invalid and new tender process to be initiated

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