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De Klerk Turner Incorporated — Attorneys & Notaries
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Capabilities

Litigation at the centre. Commercial depth around it.

Our flagship litigation team leads the firm. Our property, estates & trusts and notarial practices operate alongside it, sharing the same standards of preparation, director involvement and direct client communication.

Four practice areas, two directors

Every instruction — across litigation, property, estates or notarial work — is directed personally by one of the firm's two practising directors.

Shared standards across every matter

The discipline of commercial litigation — systematic preparation, frank advice, director accountability — is the baseline for every file, not just disputed ones.

Selective, not generalist

The firm takes on matters where it can add genuine value. That means real capacity on every file and a director who is genuinely across the detail.

Overview

One firm, structured around dispute resolution.

Flagship Practice

Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution

High-stakes commercial disputes are our core work. We handle High Court litigation, urgent applications, arbitration, mediation, and Supreme Court of Appeal and Constitutional Court matters across the spectrum of business disputes.

  • — Contractual and shareholder disputes
  • — Urgent applications and interdicts
  • — Arbitration (domestic and international)
  • — Liquidation & business rescue applications
  • — Director and trustee disputes
  • — Property, construction and lease disputes
  • — Estate and succession litigation
  • — Appeals and reviews
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All Practice Areas

Capabilities across the firm.

02 — Property

Property

Property law advisory and dispute resolution for residential and commercial property — sectional title schemes, commercial and residential leases — together with property-linked litigation including evictions, contested transfers and servitudes.

Services
  • Sectional title
  • Commercial & residential leases
  • Evictions
  • Landlord & tenant disputes
  • Servitudes
  • Property litigation
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03 — Private Client

Estates & Trusts

Wills, deceased estates, trust formation and administration, and estate planning. We also act in contested estates — a natural extension of our litigation practice — and in trustee and beneficiary disputes.

Services
  • Will drafting & estate planning
  • Deceased estate administration
  • Trust formation & administration
  • Powers of attorney
  • Servitudes
  • Estate & trust disputes
  • Trust & asset-protection planning
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04 — Notarial

Notarial Services

The firm has a practising notary public and attends to antenuptial contracts, notarial deeds, authentications and related notarial work for private clients and commercial counterparties.

Services
  • Antenuptial contracts
  • Notarial deeds
  • Powers of attorney
  • Notarial leases & bonds
  • Authentications
  • General notarial certifications
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Cross-Practice Strength

Most matters are not just one thing.

A shareholder dispute is rarely only a litigation matter — it touches corporate governance, employment and often estates. A commercial property transaction may involve an estates question or an insolvency angle. Our structure assumes this overlap.

You will find that, on a single matter, the right people from across the firm are looped in early, work together quietly, and present a single coherent strategy back to you.

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Looking for a particular capability?

Tell us about the matter and we will direct it to the right people in the firm.

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