Admission to the Bar:

2017

Fields of practice

Aviation law
Public law (International law, Constitutional law, Administrative law,
Human Rights law, Education law and medical law)
Competition law
Banking law
Environmental law: including soil, air, water, waste, biodiversity, heritage, protected areas, marine law and climate change law Maritime law
Mining and extractives law
Tax law
Insurance law
General commercial law
General property and planning law Construction law
Labour law
Energy law
Banking and Finance

Biography

Ms Yanela S’thenkosi Ntloko was called to the Bar in 2017 and brings to her practice a strong academic and professional foundation in both domestic and international law. She holds an LLB degree from the University of South Africa and an LLM degree from the University of Cambridge, Lucy Cavendish College, where she specialised in International Commercial Litigation, Competition Law, International Environmental Law, and Law, Medicine and Life Sciences. At Cambridge, she was awarded the prestigious Becker Law Studentship. She is also an accredited mediator through Conflict Dynamics and the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR), and has completed advanced training in Climate Change and Energy Law at the Mandela Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, as undertaking a postgraduate study in Maritime Law. Before being called to the Bar, Ms Ntloko built a distinguished pre-bar career as a researcher. At UNISA’s College of Law, she supported work in a wide range of fields, including commercial, constitutional, administrative, human rights, and international law. She later served in the Office of the Chief Justice, researching for Chief Justice Mogoeng and Justices Madlanga and Musi AJ on matters that became ground-breaking precedents in commercial and public law. In 2017, she was selected as the inaugural Arthur Chaskalson Fellow with the Legal Resources Centre, where she also practised in the Constitutional Litigation Unit. Since joining the Bar, Ms Ntloko has developed a wide-ranging practice with a strong focus on commercial litigation and advisory work across multiple industries. Her practice encompasses general commercial law, banking and finance, aviation, construction, insurance, property and planning, tax, competition, energy (including gas, petroleum and extractives). Ms Ntloko also has expertise in public and regulatory law (constitutional, administrative, human rights, education, and medical law), land and labour law. She is regularly instructed in high-value, complex commercial disputes in adjudications, arbitrations, the High Court, the Supreme Court of Appeal, and specialist forums such as the Competition Tribunal and Competition Appeal Court. Her practice has included participation in significant reported and unreported cases shaping South African jurisprudence, including high-profile commercial, constitutional, competition, mining, and public law matters.