Tim Fletcher

Tim Fletcher

Chairperson, Practice Head: Dispute Resolution and Director

Tim Fletcher is the Chairperson of Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, Practice Head: Dispute Resolution and a Director in the Dispute Resolution practice. He has been involved in commercial dispute resolution for many years including High Court litigation and private arbitration - both domestic and international. He has successfully resolved disputes concerning general commercial and contractual issues, administrative law issues including tender reviews as well as education, insurance, gambling, information technology, product liability and real estate issues. Tim is also an expert on education regulatory matters.

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Career

Tim is a Director and presently Chairperson of the firm and Head of our Dispute Resolution practice.

  • Managing complex commercial disputes before the High Court and in domestic and international arbitrations
  • Regularly involved in negotiations with the Department of Higher Education on behalf of leading private higher education service providers about complex regulatory issues
  • Assists a major international retail group with general commercial issues including perfection of securities, retail and real estate disputes
  • Represents insurance brokerages and underwriters in indemnity claims
  • Has conducted high level investigations for major corporations
  • Involved in numerous reviews of administrative action involving state tender awards
  • Engaged from time to time in matters before the Equality Court and the Constitutional Court
  • Often Involved in appeals and reviews in the context of gambling legislation
  • Assists our Pro Bono and Human Rights Department with litigious matters.
  • Chambers Global 2022 ranked Tim in Band 2 for Dispute Resolution. From 2019-2021 he was ranked in Band 3. Between 2015 - 2018 Tim was ranked in Band 4 for Dispute Resolution.
  • Legal 500 EMEA 2016-2022 listed Tim as a 'leading individual' for dispute resolution and recommended him in 2013–2016.
  • Tim was the exclusive South African winner of the ILO Client Choice Awards 2017 and 2018 in the litigation category.
  • The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers 2015 identified Tim as being among the world’s leading asset recovery lawyers.
  • Expert Guides: Insurance and Reinsurance has listed Tim as one of the top legal practitioners advising on insurance and reinsurance from 2013 - 2019.
  • Who’s Who Legal 2015–2019 identified Tim as one of the world’s leading Insurance & Reinsurance lawyers

Education

  • BA LLB LLM, University of the Witwatersrand
  • Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales (non-practising)
  • Year of admission as an attorney: 1991
  • Year of admission as a notary public: 1995
  • Year of admission as a solicitor: 2009

Memberships

  • Law Society of England & Wales
The Cradock Four
2 August 2021 Dispute Resolution

The Cradock Four

Tim Fletcher, Head of our Dispute Resolution practice, joined eNCA to discuss the application in the Pretoria High Court to compel the National Prosecuting Authority to make a decision on whether it will prosecute those suspected of being behind the 1985 murder of the Cradock Four. CDH is acting on a pro bono basis for the family of Lukhanyo Calata, and others.

3 October 2017 Dispute Resolution

"Unruly parents can get their kids expelled"

"Unruly parents can get their kids expelled" - National Practice Head for Dispute Resolution Tim Fletcher, together with Associate Fiorella Noriega Del Valle unpacked this highly topical issue.

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