Curriculum Vitae - Gavin C Weiman
Personal Details - Born 1955
Work experience
2001/2022 - Weiman Legal Consulting - Johannesburg
Sole Proprietor
- Contract Trainer to IIR International & ESI
- Contract Trainer and Consultant to Layton-Matthews Consulting
- Contract Trainer and Consultant to Joshua-West
- Contract Trainer & Consultant to the PGA SA
- Principal: Legal and Business Consulting Services
- Training Delivery & Development & Consulting in respect of ...
- Commercial Courses and Consulting
- Contract & Business Law for South African Managers
- Commercial Contracts Management and Administration
- Procurement Management
- Sales management
- Risk Management
- Corporate Governance
- Due Diligence
- Engineering Law, Contracting & Management
- Project Management Principles and Methodologies
- Negotiation of Commercial Contracts
- Commercial and Public Tendering
- Key Customer Relationship Management
- Pricing & Costing Theory and Methodology
- Contract Risk Management
- Legal Management Systems
- Open source online learning systems
- Business writing
- International Contacting and Comparative Contract Law
- Public Sector Courses and Consulting
- Public Contracting: Supply Chain Management
- Public Contracting: Demand, Acquisition, Logistics and Disposal Management processes.
- Public Contracting: Proposal Preparation and Evaluation
- Understanding the Public Finance Management Act
- Understanding the Local Government Municipal Finance Management Act
- Understanding Municipal Structures, functions and organization
- Understanding and working with the National Qualifications Framework
- Legal Course, Training and Consulting
- Companies Act, 2008 and King III
- Consumer Protection Act
- National Credit Act
- Supply Chain Law and Processes
- Contract Law & Commercial Contracts
- Engineering Contracts
- Business & Legal Risk
- Other legal topics on request
Personal Details - Born 1955
Work experience
2013/2022 Contract Consulting (Pty) Ltd No. 2013/081791/07 - Johannesburg
Director & Executive Officer providing ...
Consulting services
- Engineering and Construction Contracts (FIDIC, NEC3 JBCC & GCC)
- Tendering, Evaluation, Administration
- Negotiation, Drafting of Particular Conditions, Contract Risk Analysis
- Assistance with claims, disputes and settlement
- Commercial Contracting (Business Contracts)
- Consulting & advice on integrating contracting risk best practices into commercial processes.
Business Development re: Engineering and Commercial Contracts, their Management and Administration
- Individual and Group Coaching
- In-house customised training
- Development of Contracting and Commercial functions and personnel
- Drafting and template management
Dispute management services
- Arbitration
- Adjudication
- Mediation & Conciliation
- Facilitation and Negotiation
2001/2022 Weiman Legal Consulting - Johannesburg - Sole Proprietor
2001/2007 - Weiman Attorneys - Pretoria / Johannesburg
Sole Proprietor
- Commenced new legal practice as Solicitor /Attorney September 2001;
- Commercial and Corporate Law practice;
- Qualified Attorney RSA
- Qualified Solicitor: England & Wales
- Special Projects relating to Medical Aid Scheme registration;
- Special Projects Banking Ltigation;
- General Litigation.
2000 - Technology Enhanced Learning - Centurion
- Managing Director
- Contract Manager
- IT Online Learning Start-up;
- Researched online education models and features;
- Involved in JAD design and development;
- Managed IT Development Project and Implementation;
- Assisted with implementation of IthinQ.com (a SAP subsidiary) online learning website;
- Retrenched end August 2001.
1993/2000 - Gavin C Weiman Attorneys - Pretoria
Sole Proprietor
- Areas of practice include litigation in all its forms and commercial drafting and settling of agreements;
- Admitted to appear in High Court of South Africa;
- Sold practice in January 2001 to manager IT Company.
1991/1993 - Free Market Foundation - Houghton
Legal Consultant & Researcher
- Researching and advising on regulatory regimes worldwide on topical legal and economic issues.
- Preparing regulatory audits and draft regulations for the implementation of more economically benign regulatory regimes;
- Preparing submissions to government bodies, parliamentary committees and para-statals on the impact of proposed regulations from a socio-legal-economic perspective;
- Opposing select legislation on behalf of lobby groups where this fitted in with the objectives of the Foundation;
- Speaking at and participating in workshops and conferences on behalf of the Foundation;
- Seconded from 1 June 1991 to 30 September 1991 as assistant to the Chairman of the Ciskei Economic Advisory Board.
- Editor of ‘The Individualist’ a quarterly free-market-orientated magazine on public policy, social and economic issues;
- Left in April 1993 to start my own legal practice.
1981/1991 - J M Weiman & Partners - Pretoria
Partner
- General Legal Practice specializing in litigation and trial advocacy in criminal and civil courts.
- Left in 1991 to take up post with Free Market Foundation.
Professional
2022
Arbitrator - Fellow of the Association of Arbitrators (Southern Africa) NPC
QLTT Exams passed - to be admitted as a Solicitor of England and Wales
1981
Admitted as Attorney - Transvaal Provincial Division of the High Court of South Africa
1996
Admitted to Appear in the High Court
Appeared regularly in criminal and civil trial and motion matters, appeals, and various criminal applications and procedures between 1996 and 1999.
1977 – 1981 Various Pretoria
Various other positions
- Articled Clerk
- Judges Registrar – Supreme Court Pretoria
- Administrative Assistant – Department of Welfare & Pension.
Education 1980 University of South Africa Pretoria
B.Proc Degree
- Started my studies through the University of Pretoria and completed it through Unisa;
- Sub-major in Political Science
1972 Christian Brothers College Pretoria
Matric
Extracurricular activities
- 1995 – Chairman of Federal Party;
- 1988 – 1992 Chairman of Groundswell (an organization promoting democracy in South Africa);
- Public Speaking
- 1988 – 1992 Chairman (Political Organization) Democratic Party
Professional memberships
- Member of Transvaal Law Society
- Member of Pretoria Attorneys Association
- Council Member – Free Market Foundation
Interests and activities
- IT Development and Project Management,
- Law & Politics,
- Philosophy,
- Economics,
- Psychology
- Personal Development,
- Business and Management Sciences
Hobbies
- Writing
- Reading
- Music
- Road Running
- Travel