MKarstel Attorneys is a highly professional, goal-driven boutique law firm with consulting offices in Cape Town, Table View, and Melkbosstrand. The practice focuses on dealing with aviation law, family law, litigation: family, divorce, domestic violence, other civil matters, municipal, commercial and child re-location.
We offer expert legal services with deep knowledge, cut-to-the-chase precision, and genuine compassion to both domestic and international clients. Our litigation activities extend countrywide across the Superior and Magisterial Courts, and we seamlessly cross provincial and international boundaries through dedicated Zoom and Skype facilities.
Unique, Multi-Disciplinary Expertise.
Countrywide Litigation | Specialized Alternative Dispute Resolution | Unique Pastoral & Life Coaching Qualifications
The MKarstel Advantage: Unmatched Dispute Resolution & Compassionate Litigation
Court experience and litigation can feel like a tsunami to a client. Our practice is fiercely committed to walking with you and fighting for you every step of the way. What truly sets our firm apart is the unique, multi-disciplinary expertise of our Director, Mimi Karstel. As a legal practitioner, she has obtained an unparalleled bouquet of qualifications in the legal, commercial, international mediation, facilitation, arbitration, life coaching, and pastoral therapy fields. This powerful combination allows us to cut to the chase and deliver goal-driven results with deep, professional compassion—whether we are aggressively litigating a civil dispute or deploying specialized Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) to keep your family out of the courtroom.
Our Expertise & Legal Services
Experience the gravitas we bring to the courtroom and the negotiating table across the following dedicated practice areas:
Family Law, Law of Persons & Child Relocation: Holistic Support
We navigate the deep complexities of family relationships and the Law of Persons. Our services cover divorces, interim relief, comprehensive advice on commercial divorce matters, co-habitation, and the rights of fathers born out of wedlock. We specialize in the contact and care of minor children, including complex international child abduction (as regulated by the Hague Convention) and child relocation disputes where parental consent is contested.
Family Facilitation, Parenting Co-Ordination & Mediation: Neutral, Binding Resolutions
We are highly specialized in post-divorce dispute resolution. As Court-appointed Facilitators and Parenting Co-Ordinators (PC), we are authorized to issue binding directives regarding contact, schooling, and maintenance disputes. We also offer expert, neutral family mediation to help you reach mutually acceptable agreements without the acrimony of litigation.
Arbitration: Swift, Private Dispute Resolution
We provide formal commercial and labour arbitration as a highly flexible, private, and less expensive alternative to court litigation. Our arbitration services resolve complex disputes involving finances, sectional titles, construction, residential, mining, agriculture, medical, sporting, and general legal matters, resulting in final, binding awards.
Civil Litigation: Formidable Plaintiff & Defense Representation
When you are embroiled in a legal dispute seeking financial or specific performance, we are your gravitas in court. We handle breach of contract, personal injury claims, property damage, interdicts, appealing against a sentence, money claims, and complex administrative law matters.
Domestic Violence: Urgent, Protective Legal Action
We provide urgent, sensitive legal intervention for victims of domestic violence and family abuse within marriages or co-habitation, securing the necessary interdicts to ensure your absolute safety.
Criminal Litigation & Municipal Bylaws: Defending Your Freedom
When the criminal justice system is ignited, we defend the accused. We handle everything from urgent bail applications and drunk driving cases to defending clients in Municipal Court against traffic and misdemeanor charges.
Commercial & Aviation Law: Regulating the Business World
We protect your commercial interests by handling highly specialized Aviation Law, alongside general commercial contracts, partnerships, construction disputes, insolvency, rehabilitation, liquidations, commercial leases, and complex issues surrounding the National Credit Act and Consumer Law.
Conveyancing & Deeds / Estates: Securing Your Assets
Operating as a dedicated Deeds agent, we ensure you become the unchallengeable legal owner of your immovable property and manage the registration of mortgages. We also assist with the drafting of wills, the variation of marital regimes (Antenuptial Contracts), the setting up of family trusts, and managing maintenance claims of spouses and children against deceased estates.
Ready for legal representation that combines gravitas with genuine compassion?
Contact MKarstel Attorneys today. Whether you need an aggressive litigator, a highly qualified mediator, or remote legal assistance anywhere in the world, we are ready to cut to the chase and deliver the goal-driven results you deserve.
Zoom facilities cross provincial and international boundaries.
Mimi Karstel as a legal practitioner has obtained a unique bouquet of qualifications in the legal, commercial, mediation, parenting co-ordinator arbitration, life coaching and pastoral therapy fields to assist clients with, knowledge, cut through the chase approach and compassion.
Mimi Karstel: B.Com.law , LLB (University of Pretoria) , PLT LSSA- School of Legal Practice (UNISA), BA diff. Honours (Cum Laude) Pastoral Therapy (University of Therapon) (USA), Certificate for Arbitration (AFSA) , Accredited member of FAMAC for facilitation and parenting co-ordinator,member of Legal Practice Council & an Associate member of Association of Arbitrators of South Africa , Certificate in Mediation (London School of Mediation-LSM),Master Divorce and Family mediator (Social Justice), Senior Life Coach (Dip.Ad.L.C./ACCPH (UK)
Firm Profile last updated: 1 April 2026