Contact Advocate Muhammad Abduroaf
If you are not part of the legal fraternity (paralegal, attorney or advocate), Advocate Muhammad Abduroaf is a lawyer, more specific an Advocate, or as sometimes referred by others, a Barrister.
He is quite educated in the law, holding a Bachelor of Laws Degree (LL.B) and a Master of Laws (LL.M) Degree on his back, both from the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. His Masters was in Constitutional Litigation and the courses that he completed were International Environmental Law and Constitutional Criminal Justice. His mini—thesis was entitled “A right to protected rivers: An analysis of the fulfilment of the State’s Constitutional obligation to take reasonable legislative and other measures that promote the conservation and secure the sustainable use of rivers in South Africa.”
As for his current practising of law, he specialise in litigation and complicated legal issues. Problem solving is his game. The nature of litigation could either be commercial, criminal, constitutional or family, to mention a few. If you however ask him what his forte is, he would answer the application of constitutional, or human rights Law into the various laws that he practises. Sounds confusing? We know. He has however formed part of the development of child support / maintenance law, on a constitutional basis, and has many experiences in family law.
As an Advocate, his work comes to him via attorneys. If you ask why, the client has to first go to an attorney with his or her problem, and then the attorney instructs the advocate if necessary under the circumstances, or if the client persists. This is still the supposed to be practise in South Africa. Therefore if you require his legal assistance, you have to make use of an attorney. If you however require the assistance of an attorney, depending on the nature of your matter, we can refer you to a specific one.
Advocate Muhammad Abduroaf’s legal experiences ranges from Magistrates Court, Civil, Criminal, Maintenance and Domestic Violence matters to High Court Litigation. He applied in practise, various laws, which includes amongst others, family, commercial, constitutional, delictual, contractual and criminal.
He has been very involved in many child maintenance, children and family law matters since he started practising law in Cape Town. He was Counsel in two ground - breaking maintenance / child support law decisions, namely the case of Petersen versus the Maintenance Magistrate of Simon’s Town and Others, where the Western Cape High Court declared that Paternal Grand Parents have the same duty of support as Maternal Grandparents with regard to maintaining a child born out of wedlock, as well as the more recent case of Soller versus the Maintenance Magistrate of Wynberg and Others, where the Western Cape High Court confirmed the extensive powers of the Maintenance Court, which includes interdicting pension funds. Comments of both there cases can be found using Google. Look it up and let him know what you think. If you are a maintenance attorney or family lawyer, the citations are:Petersen v Maintenance Officer Simon’s Town Maintenance Court and Others 2004 2 SA 56 (C) 381 and Soller v Maintenance Magistrate, Wynberg and Others 2006 2 SA 66 (C) 2006 446. These cases can be found in the law reports or family law text books and case books.
If you are looking for the contact details of Advocate Muhammad Abduroaf in Cape Town, they are as follows:
Chambers: 304 | 3rd Floor | 37 Stand Strand | Cape Town | Western Cape
Office: 021 811 7786 (Neotel) Fax: 086 606 7786 (Fax to email)
Mobile.: 083 731 9816
Email: litigation@ourlawyer.co.za
