Jacquie Cassette

Practice Head, Director

Jacquie Cassette is a Director and Practice Head in our Pro Bono & Human Rights practice. Jacquie is responsible for the management of the firm's pro bono and human rights practice, both with regard to its existing projects and individual matters, as well as the identification of future projects. She practiced as an advocate at the Johannesburg Bar for a number of years before she joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr. At the bar, she practiced mostly in the fields of constitutional and administrative law (public law), pension fund law as well as general commercial law. She also has experience in the advertising industry, having acted as the Chair of the Advertising Industry Tribunal for a few years.

Jacquie Cassette

About Jacquie

About Jacquie

Jacquie previously taught at the Wits Law School for a few years before obtaining an LLM in International Human Rights Law at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana USA. After her year at Notre Dame, she spent a year as an intern in the Office of the Prosecutor at the ICTY and ICTR in the Hague. Jacquie then returned to South Africa to serve as a research assistant to Justice Goldstone at the Constitutional Court. From there she was employed as a senior investigator at the Office of the Public Protector for two years, before joining the Johannesburg Bar where she practiced from 2001 to 2013. She joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a Director in 2014.

Credentials

Credentials

Education

  • Registered with the Legal Practice Council
  • BA, University of the Witwatersrand
  • LLB, University of the Witwatersrand
  • LLM (International Human Rights Law), University of Notre Dame (USA)
  • Year of admission as a member of the Johannesburg Bar: 2001

Memberships

  • Served as a Director on ProBono.Org’s Board of Directors from 2014-2017
  • Served as a member of the Independent Bar Association’s Pro Bono Committee in the capacity as African Regional Forum Liaison Officer from 2020 - 2022

Languages

Languages

  • English

About Jacquie

Jacquie previously taught at the Wits Law School for a few years before obtaining an LLM in International Human Rights Law at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana USA. After her year at Notre Dame, she spent a year as an intern in the Office of the Prosecutor at the ICTY and ICTR in the Hague. Jacquie then returned to South Africa to serve as a research assistant to Justice Goldstone at the Constitutional Court. From there she was employed as a senior investigator at the Office of the Public Protector for two years, before joining the Johannesburg Bar where she practiced from 2001 to 2013. She joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a Director in 2014.

Credentials

Education

  • Registered with the Legal Practice Council
  • BA, University of the Witwatersrand
  • LLB, University of the Witwatersrand
  • LLM (International Human Rights Law), University of Notre Dame (USA)
  • Year of admission as a member of the Johannesburg Bar: 2001

Memberships

  • Served as a Director on ProBono.Org’s Board of Directors from 2014-2017
  • Served as a member of the Independent Bar Association’s Pro Bono Committee in the capacity as African Regional Forum Liaison Officer from 2020 - 2022

Languages

  • English

News

Market recognition

  • Chambers Global 2021 - 2025 ranked Jacquie in Band 3 for Administrative & Public Law.

Market recognition

  • Chambers Global 2021 - 2025 ranked Jacquie in Band 3 for Administrative & Public Law.