Biography: Management Labour and Employment

Pamela is a partner in the dispute resolution practice at Webber Wentzel and has 20 years post-qualification experience. She holds a Master of Laws degree from the London School of Economics, majoring in employment law. Her main areas of expertise are all aspects of individual and collective labour and employment law, media law, data protection and privacy law.

Pamela has been involved in the practise of labour law since its early days in the mid-1980s when she gained extensive experience at the leading Labour Law firm at the time, Cheadle Thompson and Haysom. She was the lead attorney in a number of precedent setting decisions in the field, and has been appointed on a number of occasions to act as a judge of the Labour Court of South Africa. During her office as judge she has had various judgements reported in the South African law reports.

Pamela has a broad range of clients including national and multinational corporations, parastatals, local government, private individuals, trade unions and political parties.

Pamela also has had extensive litigation experience in defamation, privacy and data protection law.