Position, academic & professional qualifications
Professor Melanie Roestoff is a professor in the Department of Mercantile Law. She holds the degrees BLC (1986) (cum laude) (Pret), LLB (1988) (cum laude) (Pret), LLM (1995) (cum laude) (Pret) and LLD (2002) (Pret). The title of her LLD thesis was "A Critical Evaluation of Debt Relief Measures for Individuals in the South African Insolvency Law”. Melanie is an attorney of the High Court of South Africa (Gauteng North Provincial Division), a member of the World Bank Working Group for the Treatment of the Insolvency of Natural Persons, a Member of the Centre for Insolvency, Labour and Company Law (CILC), and a member of the Society of Law Teachers of Southern Africa (SLTSA).
Academic & professional experience
In January 1990, she was appointed as lecturer in the Department of Mercantile Law and was promoted to senior lecturer in 1993. In 1997 she was admitted as an advocate of the High Court of South Africa. In January 2003 she was promoted to associate professor and in January 2007 to Professor in the Department of Mercantile Law. In January 2009, Melanie was seconded to the University of Pretoria Law Clinic where she served her articles of clerkship. In January 2009 Melanie returned to her academic post in the Department of Mercantile Law in which year she was also admitted as an attorney of the High Court.
Teaching activities
She presently teaches Insolvency Law and aspects of Banking Law to undergraduate law students and Insolvency Law to postgraduate law students in the Law Faculty’s Masters’ programme.
Areas of specialisation
Her main fields of interest are Insolvency Law, aspects of Banking Law and Consumer Credit Law.
Recent representative publications (2016-2018)
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Rehabilitation of an insolvent and advantage to creditors under the Insolvency Act 24 of 1936 – Ex parte Purdon 2014 JDR 0115 (GNP) 2018 THRHR 306.
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Insolvency restrictions, disabilities and disqualifications in South African consumer insolvency law – a legal comparative perspective 2018 THRHR 393.
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Debt relief for South African NINA debtors and what can be learned from the European approach (co-authored with Hermie Coetzee) 2017 CILSA 251.
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The income of an insolvent and sequestration under the Insolvency Act 24 of 1936 2017 SA Merc LJ 478.
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Enforcement of a credit agreement after breach of a rearrangement order and the ineffectiveness of debt review in terms of the National Credit Act – Ferris v Firstrand Bank Ltd (2014 3 SA 39 (CC) 2016 De Jure 134.
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Rehabilitasie in die Suid-Afrikaanse Verbruikersinsolvensiereg: Internasionale Tendense en Riglyne 2016 LitNet Akademies 594.
(April 2019)
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