Corporate Law

Through keeping track of the latest developments in Labour Law and legislation, we are able to assist employers and employees in employment, industrial relations and labour issues:

• Drafting, Interpretation and Termination of Employment Contracts;
• Advice on Minimum Standards Legislation;
• Assistance with Unfair Dismissals, including Automatically Unfair Dismissals;
• Residual Unfair Labour Practises;
• Dispute Resolution;
• Regulation of Collective Agreements;
• Collective Bargaining Forums;
• Strikes and Lock-outs;
• Picketing and Protest Actions;
• Compliance with the Basic Conditions of Employment Act as well as Labour Relations Act;
• Freedom of Association (including agency shop agreements and closed shop agreements);
• Organisational Rights as well as the Regulation of Collective Agreements;
• Assistance with Employment Equity Act and Black Economic Empowerment Legislation;
• Formulating and Chairing of Disciplinary Hearings;
• Recognition Agreements and Negotiations with Trade Unions and Bargaining Councils;
• Conducting Retrenchments and dismissals;
• Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration issues;
• Litigation in labour related issues.

Several of our clients form part of the media and entertainment industry. As such we are able to provide a number of specialist industry-related services including:

• Telecommunications Law issues;
• Information Technology Law issues;
• Defamation;
• Broadcasting, including Broadcasting Complaints Commission matters;
• Advice on Copyright, Trademarks, Patents and other fields of Intellectual Property Law;
• Advertising Law;
• Handling Advertising Standards Authority of United States complaints;
• Cyber Law issues pertaining to the commercial sphere such as online contracts, information security, right to email privacy, online intellectual property and other forms of electronic legal issues.

We have been in the Corporate Black Empowerment space since the inception of the BEE legislation and codes. We have over the years as legislation changed developed groundbreaking structures to overcome the funding of BEE transactions and to minimize the cost of such transactions.

Stewart & Partners Legal Firm specialises in rental property law, which involves all law surrounding landlords and tenants, leases of immovable property, rental collection, evictions and advices on general disputes arising between all stakeholders in the rental property arena. Our services include;

• Residential and commercial evictions;
• Rent collections and litigation;
• Residential and Commercial Lease preparation and vetting;
• Expert rental property advices on all areas of commercial, industrial and retail leases.

Stewart & Partners Legal Firm assists clients with:

• Divorces;
• Maintenance matters;
• Rule 43 Applications for Maintenance pendente lite;
• Protection orders;
• Advice on separation of parties involved in cohabitation relationships;
• General family law advice.

In divorce matters, the finalisation, negotiation and settling of the settlement agreement in divorces is essential. Certain repercussions of divorce, such as ongoing contact and access arrangements in respect of minors, maintenance payments and facilitating immediate payment from Pension Funds, have proved problematic as well as division of the estate between the parties.