www.ddkk.co.za
 
 

Magdaleen de Klerk

 

Magdaleen de Klerk

Magdaleen de Klerk

Director, Family Law Department
Phone:  015 297 3310
Fax:  086 617 0297
Email:  mdk@ddkk.co.za
Office:  Polokwane
 
 

Magdaleen, a Director of DDKK Inc. since 2000, has been working in the legal profession since 1988. Currently, she heads up the Family Law Department. Over the years, Magdaleen has proven to be a formidable litigant and a specialist in her field.

Magdaleen is passionate about the law, especially family law and has earned the respect of the courts and her peers. She appears in the courts at all levels on a weekly basis, where she enjoys an excellent success rate. She has also been involved in a number of cases that have been recorded in law reports, as well as having a number of her written articles being published in the “De Rebus”, the magazine for the attorneys’ profession. Furthermore, she has acted as a judge in the High Court in Pretoria and Thohoyandou on a number of occasions.

Magdaleen is also actively involved in several outreach initiatives such as having been a board member of ChildLine, and giving regular public lectures on issues concerning the rights of women and children.

 
Principal Services:
 
 
Principal Sectors:
 
  Family
 
 
Qualifications:
 
B.Proc.
BA (Hons)
Diploma in Human Rights Law
 
Admission:
 
Attorney of the High Court of South Africa
Right of appearance in the High Court of South Africa
 
Membership:
 
Law Society of the Northern Province 
Christian Lawyers Association
 
Community involvement:
 
Small Claims Court: Commissioner of the Small Claims Court in Polokwane, (2000 – 2015).
Board Member of ChildLine 2013-2014
Pro bono legal work inter alia for local welfare organizations and the Human Rights Commission.
Gives regular public lectures on issues concerning the rights of women and children.
 
Lecturing & speaking engagements:
 
Technikon Pretoria: Employed at the Pretoria Technikon (Polokwane Campus) as a part-time lecturer in legal subjects (1995).
She was a guest speaker at the Black Economic Forum’s Woman’s day celebrations in 2013.
She was a guest speaker at the Polokwane Child and Family Care seminar on Divorce in 2014.
She was also a guest speaker at the Ranch Hotel on 26 November 2016 on Woman and Child abuse.
Guest speaker at various seminars arranged by DDKK Inc.
 
Honours & awards:
 
High Court Pretoria: Acting Judge of the Gauteng High Court Pretoria from 27 January 2014 until 28 February 2014.
High Court Pretoria and Thohoyandou: Acting Judge of the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria and Thohoyandou from 26 July 2015 until 28 August 2015.
High Court Pretoria and Thohoyandou: Acting Judge of the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria and Thohoyandou from 4 October 2015 until 6 November 2015.
High Court Thohoyandou: Acting Judge of the Limpopo High Court Thohoyandou from 25 July 2016 until 25 August 2016.
High Court Pretoria: Acting Judge of the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, from 3 July 2017 until 14 July 2017.
She won the 2014 Lexis Nexis prize for legal practitioners for the best article by a practising attorney published in the De Rebus