The SERI Law Clinic seeks the services of a practicing advocate to fill a vacancy for General Counsel, to commence work on 1 February 2015, or as soon as possible thereafter.
The SERI Law Clinic has a first-rate human rights practice, which encompasses constitutional and administrative law, criminal defence, defamation, labour law, property law, contract law (insofar as it involves consumer protection) and actions against the police and other delictual claims. SERI concentrates its work in South Africa’s townships, informal settlements, the Johannesburg inner city and other poor and marginalised communities. SERI’s practitioners appear regularly at all levels of the courts system, up to and including the Constitutional Court. SERI has an enviable track record in obtaining and enforcing ground-breaking judgments.
Reporting to the Director of Litigation, General Counsel will work alongside SERI’s attorneys across the whole range of SERI work. He or she will appear in court alone or together with a silk and/or more junior counsel in trials, motions and appeals as required.
The closing date for applications is Friday 18 July 2014. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted, and will be expected to make themselves available for interview in August 2014.
- Read the full job description (including essential and desirable requirements, salary and application process) here.