Jacquie Cassette

Pro Bono and Human Rights

Jacquie is a Director and Head of our Pro Bono & Human Rights practice. Jacquie is responsible for the management of the firm's pro bono and human rights practice, both with regard to its existing projects and individual matters, as well as the identification of future projects. She practiced as an advocate at the Johannesburg Bar for a number of years before she joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr. At the bar she practiced mostly in the fields of constitutional and administrative law (public law), pension fund law as well as general commercial law. She also has experience in the advertising industry, having acted as the Chair of the Advertising Industry Tribunal for a few years.

BA LLB, University of the Witwatersrand  LLM (International Human Rights Law), University of Notre Dame (USA)  Year of admission as an advocate: 2000  Year of admission as a member of the Johannesburg Bar: 2001