Personal   
22 October 1958, Cape Town
Wife: Susan Rogers
No children

Education
Matric: Wynberg Boys High School, Cape Town
BA Cum Laude (1982) University of Cape Town
BA Hons, Classics (First Class) (1983) University of Cape Town
LLB Magna Cum Laude (1985) University of Cape Town

Professional History
Articled clerk; Sonnenberg Hoffmann & Galombik, Cape Town: 1986-1987 
Pupillage at the Cape Bar: Jan-July 1988
Advocate at the Cape Bar:1988-2012
Awarded status of senior counsel: 1999
Treasurer, honorary secretary and member of the Cape Bar Council: 1994-1998; 2000-2003
Chairperson of the Cape Bar Council: 2004-2005
Chairperson of tribunals established in terms of s 15K of the Pension Funds Act
Acting Judge; Western Cape High Court: various periods in 2001, 2003, 2009 and 2011
Acting Judge; Labour Court: fourth term 2002
Judge; Western Cape High Court: since 2013
Acting Judge of Appeal; Competition Appeal Court: 2015-2016
Judge of Appeal; Competition Appeal Court: since 2017

Publications, Awards, Honours and Other Activities
‘The Action of the Disappointed Beneficiary (1986) 103 SALJ 683.
When All Else has Failed: Illegal Strikes, Ultimatums and Mass Dismissals 1991 (12) ILJ 1171 (co-authored with Jeremy Gauntlett)
Silk: Why it should go Advocate (December 2006) 26
High Fees and Dubious Practices Advocate (April 2012) 40

The Ethics of the Hopeless Case Advocate (December 2017) 46.

To Give and to Gain: Judicial involvement in advocacy training SAJEJ Vol 1(1) 2018.

Lawyers in Turmoil: The Johannesburg Conspiracy of 1895 (Stormberg, 2020)
Honorary Judicial Member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP)