Attorney Durban, Customs Durban

Navigating Complex Legal Matters with Tailored Solutions

Your Partner in Commercial Legal Practice

We seek to ensure that our clients understand the complicated legal environments that they operate in and the need for tailor-made legal advice and contracts. We strive to build ongoing relationships with our clients and take the time and make the effort to understand our clients’ businesses and their operational environments in order to provide practical, solutions-driven legal advice

Areas of Expertise

Contracts

Contracts are key to managing legal risks,
but many businesses overlook proper
drafting and review, leading to costly
mistakes. We ensure contracts are up-to-
date and aligned with business needs,
from complex agreements to less
complex agreements.

Maritime & Logistics

We cover the entire logistics chain, managing insurance, contracts, claims, and litigation. Our expertise includes ship arrests, maritime claims, cargo disputes, and marine insurance, ensuring full support for the logistics and shipping industry.

Customs & Excise

Trade and logistics operators may face demands or cargo stops from SARS with penalties reaching millions of rands. Expert legal advice is crucial to navigate such claims. We assist from initial response including appeals and alternative dispute resolution to litigation.

Litigation & Arbitration

If litigation or arbitration is required, we prepare thoroughly by engaging with the facts and circumstances of the matter together with the underlying applicable law and contract terms before proceeding. This is an essential component of successful dispute management.

Insurance & Claims

Claimants often seek legal help only after a claim is rejected, especially in transport, logistics, and property sectors. Involving legal experts at the inception of the insurance process and addressing claims promptly with experienced legal advice can avoid costly mistakes.

Advisory

A crucial yet often overlooked aspect of
legal services is ongoing advisory support.
In today’s complex legal environment,
clear and sustainable legal advice is
essential for navigating regulation and
avoiding legal risk.

Bringing a wealth of expertise and hands-on experience in diverse areas of law, we are dedicated to providing practical, strategic, and tailored legal advice to meet the particular needs of our clients. Whether in commercial law, litigation, or specialized advisory services, we are available to respond to our client’s legal requirements, delivering solutions that are informed, effective, and grounded in a fundamental understanding of the industries we serve.

Christina Hunt

BA LLB

After working for a leading law firm specializing in servicing the commercial and litigation interests of the insurance and maritime industry both locally and internationally, I started my own practice which focuses on a broader spectrum of litigation, arbitration, commercial and advisory work with a focus in particular on the full range of contracts from large property developments to drafting bespoke contracts and Standard Conditions arising from my clients business needs.

John Hunt

BA LLB LLM (Maritime Law)

With extensive experience in legal advisory and practising law in the fields of litigation, arbitration, claims management, insurance risk management, forensic investigations, corporate and project finance, maritime and corporate law, I understand the needs of my clients and the complexities of running their businesses. With a wealth of hands-on experience in diverse fields, I offer practical and considered advice to my clients rooted in a clear knowledge of the law and risk management both within South Africa and internationally.