Maria Du Toit

Director

Our firm’s senior attorney and Director, Maria Du Toit [BLC LLB LLM University of Pretoria], was admitted as an attorney on 22 July 1997 and began this firm in 1999.

She was appointed the national legal representative of the South African Police Union for 4 years (2001 – 2004).

At the time SAPU, whose membership numbered 60 000 functional and administrative police staff, was a majority union in the safety and security sector.

Maria’s successes included the re-instatement of several unfairly dismissed members and a rank and leg promotion dispute that involved tens of thousands of police members, with the result that hundreds of millions of rands were paid out to those affected.

Her monthly articles in the Union Post were eagerly read by union members and officials. She represented SAPU as an employer in all of the union’s labour disputes and managed all of the union’s legal affairs including collections, re-possessions, contractual claims and high court matters.