Brief curriculum vitae:
2014 to date: – Practising as an advocate at the Windhoek Bar in Windhoek and Swakopmund
1984 to date: – Practising as an advocate at the Johannesburg Bar
(save 1986 – 1987)
1979 – 1983: – Articled and practised as an attorney in Johannesburg and Randburg.
Academic qualifications:
BCom (RAU)
LLB (RAU)
LLM (Banking and Stock Exchange Law) (UJ)
Thesis: The legal implications of exchange rate fluctuations
Society memberships:
- Member of the Law Society of Namibia (by statutory compulsion when admitted as a legal practitioner)
- Member of the Namibian Bar Association
- Member of the Johannesburg Society of Advocates
- Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb)
- Arbitrator on General Commercial
- Panel of The Arbitration Foundation of South Africa (AFSA)
- Mediator accredited by Conflict
- Dynamics (CD) and the Africa Centre for Dispute Settlement at the
- University of Stellenbosch Business School (ACDS)
- Accredited Mediator Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR)
- Accredited Mediator of the High Court of Namibia
Principal reported cases:
- Laicatti Trading Capital Inc and Others v Greencoal (Namibia) (Pty) Ltd and Another 2016 (2) NR 363 (HC)
- Espag and Another v Hattingh 2010 (3) SA 22 (SCA)
- Oosthuizen’s Transport (Pty) Ltd and Others v MEC, Road Traffic Matters, Mpumalanga, and Others 2008 (2) SA 570 (T)
- Orange River Export (Pty) Ltd v TDC International Fruit Frais du Monde Inc [2005] 1 All SA 764 (NC)
- Absa Bank Ltd v Myburgh 2001 (2) SA 462 (W)
- Ward and Another v Smit and Others: In Re Gurr v Zambia Airways
- Corporation Ltd 1998 (3) SA 175 (SCA), [1998] 2 All SA 479 (A)
- Diepsloot Residents’ and Landowners’ Association and Others v
- Administrator, Transvaal 1994 (3) SA 336 (A)
Year of Admission:
1988
Email:
hhsteyn@law.co.za
Contact Number:
+264 (0)81 270 0605
Practice areas:
- Administrative law
- Arbitration
- Banking and finance
- Commercial law
- Insolvency and company law
- Property law
