LITIGATION
We specialise in litigation, which means that we are fully conversant with the Rules of Court, and therefore know how to best advance our client’s rights. We frequently appear on behalf of our clients in various Magistrate and High Courts and Labour Courts throughout Gauteng and pride ourselves on having a high success rate.
MAGISTRATE’S COURT LITIGATION
If a claim is for less than R400 000, the claim will be instituted in the Magistrate’s Court. Almost each and every main town has its own Magistrate’s Court. The advantage of litigating in the Magistrate’s Court is that, one should be able to finalise a trial within 9 months to 12 months.
HIGH COURT LITIGATION
If the claim is for more than R400 000, the claim will be instituted in the High Court. Each province has its own High Court. Sometimes, a province has two High Courts, such as Gauteng and KwaZulu Natal. High Court matters take longer to finalise due to the limited number of judges that are available to adjudicate matters and due to the general complexity of matters that these judges adjudicate.
Both advocates and attorneys may appear in the High Court, provided that the attorney has the right to appear in the High Court. Some of our practitioners at CBI Attorneys have such right of appearance in the High Court and frequently appear in the High Court, both in unopposed and opposed matters. When you instruct us to either advance or defend a matter on your behalf in the High Court, by our own practitioners attending to the matters ,we are able to keep your litigation costs within reasonable limits