Maisels Group Members

Prior to being called to the Bar, Decide has over 5 years’ experience as an Attorney. Decide worked as an Assistant State Attorney at the Office of the State Attorney, Johannesburg. Decide accepts instructions in all Chambers’ areas of practice. He is particularly interested in labour law, contract law, commercial and company law, mining and mineral law, medical law and malpractice.

Published Articles:

Fighting over breadcrumbs: Cartels and the Competition Act 89 of 1998. DR, March 2014: 20 DEREBUS 24

Rectifying the Mvumvu disparity – The Road Accident Fund (Transitional Provisions) Act 15 of 2012. DR, May 2013: 30 DEREBUS 81

Decide’s practice includes a broad range of pleadings and advisory work. He has chaired Disciplinary Hearings, appeared in the Labour Court, in the CCMA, in the High Court of South Africa, in the Appeal Court, and in the magistrate court.

Decide is a member of the Johannesburg Bar and the Legal practice Council.

Decide has expertise in Labour Law – he holds an LLM in Labour Law. He was a Union Shop-Steward while working at the Road Accident Fund as a Litigation Officer 2013 to 2014. He worded at the Office of the State Attorney from September 2015 to December 2016, where he represented government departments and ministers in labour court, labour appeal court, CCMA, and Bargaining Council.

As Counsel, he represented employers in urgent applications to interdict strikes, he chaired disciplinary hearings, he initiated disciplinary actions, drafted charges, appeared in Labour Court, appeared in CCMA and Bargaining Council.

CASES
Reportable judgment:
• Minister of Police v Thabo Mnyambo, Case No: A32/20
Noteworthy Cases:
• Letsobana v Africabin Building Systems (Pty) Ltd (52790/2021) [2022] ZAGPJHC 368 (10 May 2022)
• Sebothoma v Road Accident Fund (36936/2016) (2018) ZAGPPHC 460 (15 February 2018)