Results-oriented Legal Practitioner with over 10 years years of supporting legal issues and litigation in the High Court of Namibia.
Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills. Hardworking employee with client service, multitasking, and time management abilities.
5 (Husband, and two sons, a daughter, mother)
Institute and or defend legal proceedings both paper files and on e-justice, draft pleadings letters of demand, legal opinions and legal advice. Attend all court judicial case management process and pre-trial, trial and conduct trials and hearings in High court of Namibia. Appear in the Supreme court of Namibia, and Labour courts. Conduct arbitrations on behalf of client., Attend court connected mediation as a representative with my clients, and I also have experience conducting a court connected mediation as a court accredited mediator. Attend to the office of the Labour Commissioner to conciliate and arbitrate. I have represented clients in private arbitrations., Assist Legal Advisor to various conservancies supported by WWF LIFE Programme (Balyerwa, Conservancy, Mayuni, Mashi, Torra, Kasika, Kunene River, Spitzkoppe CommunityDevelopment Trust), draft and advise on joint venture agreements for tourism developments between the conservancies and private sector joint venture partners, draft amendments to Deeds of Trust, attend Parks advisory committee meetings. Assist Legal Advisor to ECOSO Dynamics, advise on whether or not material transfer agreement needs to comply with the provisions of the Nagoya Protocol. Draft legal Advice., Assist Legal Advisor to the Ministry of Environment & Tourism for legal and operational revision of access restriction (Diamond Act) to Sperrgebiet National Park in light of intended tourism concessions in the park and proclamation of town of Oranjemund; ,instructions from Strengthening the Protected Area Network of Namibia Project SPAN (UNDP);ongoing, draft amendment, and Legal Advise. Assist Legal Advisor to the Interim Bioprospecting Committee (IBPC), consisting of Ministries of environment, agriculture, education, fisheries, trade, safety & security and Office of the Attorney General; Drafting Layperson's Draft of the Access and Benefit Sharing Bill, give presentation at high level awareness raising workshop on the importance of genetic laws and the general brief introduction to Access and Benefit Sharing., Accredited Namibian delegate to the United Nations Convention To Combat Desertification Eleventh Session Of The Conference Of Parties, to serve on the technical committee and provide legal advise to negotiators. Provide comments to the host country agreement, and liaise with the office of the Attorney General to provide legal advise on the host country agreement, draft Event management company agreement, and service providers template agreement. Accredited Namibian delegate to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, to attend the Article 8J and SABSTA meetings in Montreal Canada, October 2013, advice on the country position in re ABS Bill and Namibia's accession to the Nagoya Protocol.