CURRICULUM VITAE

SURNAME NORMAN
NAMES THANDI VICTORIA
PLACE OF BIRTH TARKASTAD
SEX FEMALE
MATRICULATED ST. MATTHEWS HIGH SCHOOL
1983
TERTIARY UNIVERSITY OF TRANSKEI
B.JURIS - 1988
LLB - 1992

WORK EXPERIENCE

MARCH 1988 – 1990 PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, ZWELITSHA
CISKEI

1991 TUTOR – CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
UNIVERSITY OF TRANSKEI

4 JUNE 1992 ADMITTED AS AN ADVOCATE

1993 AND 1994 PART – TIME LECTURER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE – CIVIL PROCEDURE

1994 APPOINTED AS A PRESIDING OFFICER IN THE FIRST DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS IN KING WILLIAM’S TOWN

1992 TO 1995 STATE ADVOCATE BISHO

1995 SECONDED TO THE GOLDSTONE
COMMISSION WHICH ENQUIRED INTO TAXI VIOLENCE IN THE EASTERN CAPE

1995 TO JULY 1996 SENIOR LEGAL ADMINISTRATIVE
OFFICER, OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR GENERAL, BISHO

AUGUST 1996 TO NOVEMBER 1996 ENROLLED AS A PUPIL AT THE
DURBAN BAR

4 DECEMBER 1996 COMMENCED PRACTICE

JANUARY 1997 JOINED THE BISHO BAR

1999 TO 2000 MEMBER OF THE BAR COUNCIL BISHO

2001 ORGANISED MOCK TRIALS FOR PUPILS IN BISHO

FEBRUARY TO MARCH ATTENDED THE WOMENS’S WORLD
2001 CONFERENCE – LONDON

FEBRUARY 2002 JOINED THE DURBAN BAR – DUAL
MEMBERSHIP

2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 AND ACTED AS A JUDGE IN MTHATHA,BHISHO 2007, 2008, 2010,2014,2016 GRAHAMSTOWN, PORT ELIZABETH, DURBAN , PIETERMARITZBURG AND SOUTH GAUTENG


OCTOBER 2002, 2007, 2008 , 2015, SERVED AS A MEMBER OF THE KWAZULU-NATAL BAR COUNCIL

AUGUST 2004 TO JANUARY 2005 A TRAINEE AT HOLLAND AND KNIGHT, NEW YORK IN MARITIME LAW

23 JUNE 2005 OBTAINED A CERTIFICATE IN TUTORSHIP COURSE ON UNDERSTANDING SHIPPING FROM THE INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED SHIPBROKERS, DURBAN.

2007 TO 2009 PRESIDENT – SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN LAWYERS ASSOCIATION (SAWLA) – KZN REGION

2009 TO APRIL 2011 MEMBER OF THE BID ADJUDICATION TRIBUNAL KZN

JUNE 2011 ATTAINED SILK STATUS

08 FEBRUARY 2005 SERVED ON THE BOARD: USHAKA MARINE
TO 24 JANUARY 2011 DURBAN MARINE THEME PARK

2014 TO DATE MEMBER OF THE BOARD FOR THE COEGA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

28 FEBRUARY 2013 APPOINTED BY PREMIER, KZN AS CHAIRPERSON OF THE RTI RECRUITMENT COMMISSION

JULY 2015 TODATE ELECTED TO SERVE ON THE GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE BAR AS AN ASSISTANT HONORARY SECRETARY

APRIL 2017 APPOINTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA TO SERVE ON THE JUDICIAL SERVICE COMMISSION
NOVEMBER 2017 CHAIRPERSON OF THE ADVOCATES FOR TRANSFORMATION IN KWAZULU-NATAL

PRACTISING AT : SALMON GROVE CHAMBERS
ROOM 601, 6TH FLOOR
407 ANTON LEMBEDE STREET
DURBAN
4001

ALSO AT : THULAMELA CHAMBERS
4TH FLOOR
1A PROTEA PLACE
SANDOWN
2196

AREAS OF INTEREST

I have appeared in the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court of Appeal, in almost all the High Courts in the country, the Broadcasting Complaints Commission, the Labour Courts, the Land Claims Court and the Water Tribunal. I have an interest in Maritime, Administrative and Constitutional Law. I also do a lot of medical negligence cases, cases on administrative law, land claims, commercial and tax matters and also handled cases on constitutional challenges of certain pieces of legislation.