About Us

Fair Practice is a dispute resolutions service provider with a team of multi-disciplinary professionals who believe that communication builds collaboration and collaboration leads to commitment through fair process.

Dispute Resolution

Our Approach

Founded in 2013 Fair Practice, a leading provider of dispute resolution and professional development services, is proud to announce its expanded offerings in mediation, negotiation, and specialised training workshops. Leveraging years of expertise, Fair Practice is committed to facilitating constructive dialogue, fostering mutual understanding, and empowering individuals and businesses with the essential skills to navigate conflicts effectively.

We believe in the power of collaboration and effective communication. Our expanded suite of services is a testament to our commitment to creating a harmonious community where disputes are resolved amicably and efficiently.

With a team of dedicated experts, the organisation has successfully facilitated countless mediations and negotiations, making a significant impact in the South African community.

Our Code of Fair Practice

To always be transparent with our clients in terms of Fair Practice costs and the appropriate forum they should approach throughout their disputes.

We work with a multidisciplinary team ensuring that the right professional serves our clients’ needs maintaining our high expectation of competence and expert skill-set from our practitioners and affiliated services.

Our practitioners will always address any perceived conflict of interest our clients may have so as to assure our clients of impartiality as part of our dispute resolution services.

To use an approach that promotes collaboration and effective communication that brings about mutually agreed decisions.

We commit to do no harm to the relationship we have with our clients and the relationship our clients have with each other.

Fees

All Fair Practice costs are known in advance to our clients through our agreements of respective services.
For dispute resolution services, fees are adjusted in accordance with the complexity of the dispute and the seniority of the professional required as chosen by our clients.
All affiliates of Fair Practice set their own rates which are discussed directly with you.

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Veerash Srikison

Fair Practice Founder

Veerash Srikison is an admitted advocate and the founder of Fair Practice, a dispute resolution services organisation based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Fair Practice is the 2022/2023 South African winner of the Mediation Firm of the Year award.

She is a cum laude graduate of the Arbitration Foundation of South Africa (AFSA – University of Pretoria) in Alternate Dispute Resolution. She is the lead trainer for Fair Practice and AFSA (Arbitration Foundation of South Africa) in mediation and negotiation skills. Over the past 10 years she has trained over 500 professionals from all sectors, including Chief Executive Officers, presiding judicial officers, senior members of the Bar Council, HR Practitioners and delegates from the South African defence force, in Mediation, Negotiation and Communication & Conflict Management. Using her mediation and negotiation skills, she has guided multiple organisations and conglomerates in South Africa through processes in settling their disputes amicably without resorting to lengthy and costly court battles.

She is a Harvard School of Law trained mediator and negotiator and has presided as a judge in Civil/Commercial Mediation and Negotiation competitions globally. She is also an internationally accredited civil/commercial mediator and negotiator through the Centre for Dispute Resolution (CEDR – UK) She is the South African representative within a global network of accomplished mediators representing their countries at various conferences and social media platforms. Her work in the Negotiation and Mediation fields of legal practice globally has earned her the World Law Alliance award as a Prominent Woman in International Law 2023.

Veerash is a trustee of the organisation Matla A Bana – A Voice Against Child Abuse. She works closely with the South African Police Services in volunteering her time to assist women and children where needed. Her passion for giving people a voice to reduce emotional trauma in disputes has made her an invited keynote speaker at numerous conferences and events nationally and globally. Her endorsement, to hearing the voice of the child in all matters related to the child began in 2014 and has remained her community focus ever since. Resulting in Veerash obtaining an LLM (University of Pretoria) with a distinction merit for her dissertation on mediation in Child Law. She is currently a doctoral candidate with her focus on Mediation and Children’s Rights.

She has become a known speaker on all media platforms around the world, endorsing peace over conflict and the empowerment of the vulnerable through her work as a mediator and negotiator in high conflict disputes. Her media interviews can be found here.

Affiliated Nationally & Internationally

Fair Practice’s mediation and negotiation training programs are affiliated to various academies and institutes including the Arbitration Foundation of South Africa (AFSA).