Our Practice

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• Arthur Nieklaassen hails from the Kimberley in the Northern Cape Province, in South Africa.
• He graduated with a BA in Law, trained as a debt counsellor in 2007, practiced as a debt counsellor Ref: NCRDC260, attended the 60 Hour Course for Advocates, Attorneys and other Legal Practitioners in Mediation via UCT. Arthur was the first and only debt counsellor at his time who has managed to successfully obtained debt restructured court orders in favour of his (clients) consumers –taxi clients against a commercial bank. With an impeccable record as a debt counsellor the best in the country at the time, with fine skills of negotiating and resolving disputes, no matter how big or small and or challenging, with speed and with a balance between the parties.

• He got recruited to take up a legal managerial post in the banking sector herein he spearheaded the debt restructuring department, since left and conducted in-house mediation throughout South Africa. He became a civil mediator because of the opportunity to help organisations and persons with legal and any other problems, the “chess game” challenges presented by the adversary system, the opportunity to learn about the diverse issues involved in the wide range of cases he handled, and the drama of the courtroom.
• He has vast experience in Risk Management and Para-Legal matters. ( Law of agency, Contract
• Law, Common Law, Insolvency Law, Law of delict, Property Law, Company Law, Law of Partnerships and trust, Labour Law, Copyright Law, Patent Law, Family Law, Customary Law, Law of Person, Law of Succession, Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure, Administrative Law,Education Law).
• Arthur has joined the panel of ADRNETWORKSA, he has mediated in-house and independently for several years. He became a full-time mediator in May 2005, after almost 10 years in private practice, in advising and assisting thousands of consumers over the years to manage their finances, clear their salaries and bank accounts from un-procedural deductions from collectors and assisted many individuals to remove their names from the credit bureaux successfully. He is also involve in consumer education, he is teaching consumers legal and financial skill via ringtones, audio, CD, DVDs, Podcasts and now via online short courses.

• Arthur attended a wide variety of disputes in the CCMA, MIBCO, bargaining councils and other forums, from multi-party involving labour disputes.

• Arthur is the author of two books, “Great Help for the Nation, Disregarding, Non-compliance
• with Rule 41A and the Mediation process, ‘to be published in by end April 2022; and
• “The Greatest Politian of All Time, Africa's Unemployment Time bomb Beyond COVID-19, ‘to
• be published in by end April 2022.

• Personal style He has garnered much acclaim for his love to help any human being and any organisations to resolve disputes. What set Nieklaassen apart from other mediator`s with his 30 years’ experience in this field, he brings his debt counselling and mediation expertise with love and passion for this game.

• Nieklaassen is not only radical in resolving dispute but very aware of a conscious balance and
• the right to dignity but he believe that dignity violations and indignity were supposed to be dead and buried many years ago. He does not belief even though in some instance some parties wish to come to a session with authority, the financial muscle. His goal is always one thing in mind, and that the parties are key and they need to engage, resolve issues. For this reasons he ensures that his mediated matters only goes to court for settlement endorsements, the court is the last door. He further beliefs that it is at the very same courts where dignity violations occur on a daily basis. I set out below are a small selection of comments received direct from partiewho have appointed Arthur as mediator. Further examples can be found on his Biography on the website link here: https://nivantu.official.academy/#!

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