Practice Areas

The core function of Brian Ceylon Attorneys covers legal services, including:

Corporate – Commercial Law

  • Corporate and Commercial Law [including commercial contracts, company and business law, sale of business, franchising and insurance].
  • Opinions, advices on corporate and commercial law.
  • Commercial litigation
  • Compliance.

Family and Divorce Law

  • Antenuptial and Post nuptial contracts.
  • Divorces – including custody and contact in relation to the minor children, and parental visitation rights.
  • Child and spouse maintenance.
  • Adoption, surrogacy, domestic partnership and parental plans.
  • Divorce and family law opinions and litigation.

Property, Conveyancing and Notarial Practice

  • Property contracts [including lease, sale and rental agreements].
  • Transfer of fixed property
  • Subdivisions, consolidations, servitudes.
  • Bonds, notarial bonds and mortgage bonds.
  • Notarial practice.

Administration of Estates

  • Administration of deceased estates.
  • Wills.
  • Trusts.
  • Opinions.

Delictual Claims

  • Delictual/RAF claims
  • Claims against the State, Department of Health, the Police [including unlawful arrests and detention claims].
  • Medical negligence and personal injury claims.

Civil Litigation

  • Debt collections, interdicts, contractual disputes.
  • Litigation against the State and State Entities.
  • Consumer protection
  • Foreclosures and evictions
  • Advices and opinions.

Insolvency and Business Rescue Law

  • Voluntary surrender, compulsory sequestrations and liquidations.
  • Business rescue.
  • Rehabilitation of insolvent estates.
  • Insolvency litigation.
  • Opinions.

Labour and Employment Law

  • Dispute resolution [including mediation and arbitration].
  • Unfair and constructive dismissals, and unfair labour practice.
  • Chairing of Hearings (disciplinary, incapacity etc) and prosecution of hearings.
  • Labour law opinions.
  • Litigation at the CCMA, Labour and Labour Appeals Courts, SCA and bargaining councils.
  • Employment contracts.
  • Advice and opinions.

Litigation

  • Civil, commercial and general litigation [including the Magistrate’s and in the High Courts, the Supreme Court of Appeals, and the Constitutional Court] specialist tribunals and Courts.
  • Criminal litigation.

Opinions and Advices

  • Various aspects of law, including: corporate, commercial and labour law.
  • Insolvency and business rescue.
  • Divorce and family law.
  • Civil and criminal law.

Criminal Law

  • Bail applications.
  • Trials and appeals.
  • Opinions.

Constitutional and Administrative Law

  • Advice and opinions.
  • Municipal and governmental law.
  • Litigation against the State departments and entities.

Correspondents work

  • Acting as correspondent in the Pretoria area for colleagues outside.

Clientele

The expansive clientele, past and present, attests to the esteem, within which the firm is held. Clients services include:

major banks

ABSA, FNB, Standard Bank and Nedbank, as well as the IDC and the Development Bank Southern Africa.

STATE AND PRIVATE OWNER ENTITIES

The City of Tshwane, Petro SA and NESCA; and African Legend Indigo (Pty) Ltd, AVBOB, Busicor Hydraulic and Pipe Services, Centrac Tracking Services, Collection Solutions, Computer Alarms, R&V Agencies, Tshwane Hygiene Services, Unoxio Media, and Vulindlela Engineering Group.

TRADE UNIONS

The firm has also acted for Trade Unions, Including NUM, NUMSA, CEPPWAWU, IMATU, MEWUSA, SACTWU, and SACCAWU and Cooperatives.

liquidators, trustees and executors

Brian Ceylon has become a respected attorney’s firm amongst liquidators, trustees and executors in deceased and insolvent estates, and correspondent attorneys throughout South Africa.

“With a wealth of resources, both technological and managerial,
we are able to meet the most robust of client needs.”

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We practice in the greater Pretoria, Midrand and Johannesburg areas.