Paul Esselaar
Paul Esselaar completed his BA, LLB at Rhodes University in Grahamstown in 1997. Thereafter he attended the School for Legal Practice at the University of Cape Town in 2000 and went on to complete his articles at Kessler De Jager Inc. During his articles he focussed on Magistrates and High Court litigation as well as deceased estates amongst other things. Paul was admitted as an attorney of the High Court in 2001. After completing his articles he went back to the University of Cape Town and completed his LLM in Electronic Law and Commercial Law in 2003.
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Paul is the head of the Public Voice Portfolio for the Internet Society of South Africa (ISOC-ZA) which recently concluded a very successful iNet conference. Paul has a broad background in Electronic Law which is ably assisted by a stint at an Online Dispute Resolution company called TrustEnforce as well as his experience as the webmaster for the Trade Law Centre (tralac). He has practiced as a Electronic Law specialist for the Electronic Law Consultancy and also for his own account as part of Esselaar and Associates.
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Paul was employed as the Electronic Law Manager for Korbitec (Pty) Ltd from 2005 to 2007, a software company that specialises in producing software for the legal market. He was responsible for the documentation relating to debt collection and various other aspects of practice management such as FICA compliance within existing software products. He also advised Korbitec on the impact of the National Credit Act and his experience in dealing with the National Credit Act also extends to over 30 different presentations on the National Credit Act as part of the publicity campaign organised by Korbitec.
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Most recently Paul was invited to speak at a Debt Counsellors conference in July 2008 and was admitted as a Notary of the High Court in August 2008. He written several articles on the Consumer Protection Act which is based on consumer protection legislation in Canada and the United Kingdom. He has presented to the Cape Law Society on electronic signatures and he is a Wireless Application Service Providers Association (WASPA) adjudicator. Paul currently focuses on commercial law with an emphasis on the electronic aspect.
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