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Commentary on mediation practice, Rule 41A and family and commercial disputes.
Karen Malan
Director · Attorney · Mediator · Practice Manager
An attorney of nearly two decades’ standing turned full-time mediator, with more than 400 matters mediated across family and divorce, civil and commercial, and personal injury and Road Accident Fund disputes.
Profile
About Karen Malan
Karen Malan was admitted as an attorney in 1997 and practised until 2015 as an associate, consultant and sole practitioner before turning exclusively to mediation. She has mediated actively since 2016 and has mediated more than 400 matters. She is a director of Malan Vermeulen Incorporated, where she also serves as practice manager.
She is a NABFAM-accredited family and divorce mediator and a DiSAC-accredited personal injury and Road Accident Fund mediator, with further training in transformative mediation and the psychology of family mediation. Her practice spans family, civil and commercial, and RAF matters, in person and online.
Karen is a director and co-founder of ACR Community NPC, whose ADR Court Project brought mediation into the Children’s Court at Protea Soweto in 2023 and Johannesburg Central in 2024, and Managing Director and mentor of the NABFAM-accredited supervision and mentorship programme at Alternative Conflict Resolution. She served on the Executive Committee of the Social Justice Association of Mediators from 2024 to 2025, and in 2024 ProBono.Org honoured her with its Best Mediation Contribution award.
Fields of expertise
- Family & divorce mediation
- Civil & commercial facilitative mediation
- Transformative mediation
- Personal injury & Road Accident Fund mediation
Accreditation & membership
- NABFAM accredited mediator (2024)
- DiSAC accredited mediator (2025)
- Social Justice Association of Mediators — membership no. 11122/2022
- South African Association of Mediators — membership no. SAAM1378
- Attorney — Legal Practice Council, membership no. M14087
Experience
Practice and appointments
- Director and Practice Manager, Malan Vermeulen Incorporated
- Practising attorney, 1997–2015 — associate, consultant and sole practitioner
- Mediator since 2016 — more than 400 matters mediated
- Director, Alternative Conflict Resolution (Pty) Ltd and ACR Community NPC
- Director and co-founder, ACR Community NPC — the ADR Court Project
- Managing Director and mentor, Alternative Conflict Resolution (Pty) Ltd — NABFAM-accredited supervision and mentorship programme
- Exco member, Social Justice Association of Mediators, 2024–2025
- Best Mediation Contribution award, ProBono.Org, 2024
- Speaker and trainer — conflict management and ADR
Education & training
- 1993B.ProcUniversity of the Free State
- 1997Admitted and enrolled as an attorneyLegal Practice Council
- 1998LLBUniversity of the Orange Free State
- 201450-hour Divorce & Family MediationFAMSA
- 202240-hour Divorce MediationSocial Justice Foundation
- 2023Psychology for Family MediationSocial Justice Foundation / Dr Lynette Roux
- 2024NABFAM accreditationSocial Justice Foundation
- 2025DiSAC accreditation; RAF Mediation Specialist TrainingSAAM; Conflict Dynamics
For the Rule 41A amplified notice
Karen Malan — Rule 41A Protocol compliance and RMO.
The information a legal representative needs for an amplified Rule 41A notice, set out in full and ready to copy — or to download as a PDF. No request necessary.
How we run a Rule 41A mediation →
- NABFAM-accredited family and divorce mediator, and DiSAC-accredited personal injury and RAF mediator
- RMO — Social Justice Association of Mediators (SJA), membership no. 11122/2022, and South African Association of Mediators (SAAM), membership no. SAAM1378
- Gauteng High Court Court-Annexed Mediation — registered, Karen Malan, GPP Directory
Information required for the Rule 41A amplified notice — Karen Malan
- 1Qualifications and Skillset:
- 1.1Karen Malan is a director of Malan Vermeulen Incorporated and an admitted attorney of the High Court.
- 1.2She is a trained and accredited NABFAM (National Accreditation Board of Family Mediators) family and divorce mediator and DiSAC (Dispute Settlement Accreditation Council) personal injury and RAF accredited mediator.
- 1.3She is a member of the Social Justice Association of Mediators (SJA) and the South African Association of Mediators (SAAM), in good standing.
- 1.4Her academic qualifications include B.Proc LLB.
- 2Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
- 3Format of Mediations: Online or in person
- 4Contact Details:
- 4.1Tel: 010 980 5160
- 4.2E-mail: [email protected]
- 5Recognised Mediation Organisation (RMO) in terms of the Gauteng High Court Mediation Protocol:
- 5.1Social Justice Association of Mediators (SJA); and
- 5.2South African Association of Mediators (SAAM).
Writing & speaking
Insights
MMA series
Karen in print and in the room.
Mediation and the Modern Attorney
The firm’s free monthly webinar series for attorneys and advocates.
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Ground Floor, Quadrum 3, 50 Constantia Boulevard,
Floracliffe, Johannesburg, 1709, South Africa
010 980 5160 · [email protected]
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Tell us, in confidence, what you are facing. We will tell you plainly whether mediation is the right route — and if it is not, who to speak to instead.
Malan Vermeulen Incorporated (MV Inc.)Ground Floor, Quadrum 3, 50 Constantia Boulevard,
Floracliffe, Johannesburg, 1709, South Africa
010 980 5160 · [email protected]