About UCT Law@Work
UCT Law@Work: Professional Development Project established in 1999 is a self -funded unit within the Faculty of Law at the University of Cape Town. Law@work offers shorts courses, seminars and workshops of a postgraduate standard to members of the legal and other professions.
About the course presenters
Alan Nelson SC is a co-founder of the Nelson Mediation, Arbitration and Peace Centre. After spending 35 years as a highly successful high court advocate and trial lawyer, Alan resigned from the Cape Bar in 2006 and currently offers his expertise in all facets of civil and commercial law as a CEDR and CD accredited mediator. He serves as an elected member of the ADR Forum of the Western Cape Government. Alan frequently addresses audiences on mediation and has been a part of the UCT Mediation Training Team since its inception
Jacques Joubert is an ADR Group accredited mediator with more than 20 years of legal experience, which includes practising as an arbitrator and mediator. He is a former member of the Cape Bar and has practised law in Canada. Jacques has trained mediators for UCT, the Department of Justice and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Jacques designed and developed the material for the course with Francois Botha and Alan Nelson’s assistance. As an independent mediation analyst he regularly publishes articles on the status and prospects of mediation in South Africa.