YEARS OF PROVEN RESULTS
Woodhead Bigby is a leading firm of Attorneys, Conveyancers and Notaries Public practising from its offices in La Lucia, Durban, Province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. With offices situated in La Lucia, forming part of the broader Durban North and Umhlanga Central Business District, the firm provides a broad range of legal services to local and international clients, including corporates, organs of the state, and individuals.
Since the firm’s foundation in 1922 by Theodore Woodhead, and through generations of top legal minds, the practice has evolved and built a solid reputation in the legal profession for over a century.
Woodhead Bigby is proud of its reputation and capacity to provide its clients with practical and reliable legal advice and legal services for fair value, with the emphasis on outcomes-based solutions.
The firm’s core services include Litigation, Corporate and Commercial, Property, Estates and Trusts and Notarial Practice, and Employment law.
We are proudly B-BBEE Level 1.
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Our Services
LITIGATION
Litigation deals with matters which involve disputes, claims and the recovery of debts, whether through the courts or by means of arbitration.
CORPORATE & COMMERCIAL
This department deals with matters which involve the corporate and commercial aspects of business.
PROPERTY
The Property department deals with matters which involve Conveyancing and Notarial practice.
ESTATES & TRUSTS
Estates and Trusts deal with a variety of matters such as planning, wills, trust deeds and contracts
EMPLOYMENT LAW
The department participates in a wide range of employment related matters
Our Blogs
One Bad Letter and Your Eviction Falls Apart
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” (George Bernard Shaw) Many landlords assume that once a tenant stops paying rent, an eviction order will inevitably follow. A recent Western Cape High Court judgment shows how wrong...
Legal Speak Made Easy
The “Aedilitian Remedies” A common sense principle inherited from early Roman law is that the buyer of an item discovering a latent (hidden) defect in it after the sale has a choice of remedies: either cancel the sale and return the item to the seller for a full...
Married Out of Community of Property? You May Still Be Entitled to a Share
"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Under the antenuptial contract alone, she would have had no claim on his estate. The court found otherwise. A woman who spent three decades running a home, raising her husband's...