Myron Dewrance is Senior Counsel at the Rivonia Group of Advocates in Johannesburg. He holds the degrees B Iuris and LLB from the University of Pretoria and a Diploma in Insolvency Law. He was admitted as an advocate in 2002, has practised at the Johannesburg Bar since 2004 and took silk in 2018.
Before coming to the Bar he was an examiner in the Office of the Master of the High Court, Pretoria, and a liquidator, and he has been an insolvency practitioner since 1998. Insolvency and business rescue remain his field of greatest interest. His practice is dominated by commercial litigation, including banking, competition, credit and contractual disputes, and extends to administrative and constitutional law, tax, construction, water, property, labour, pension fund and energy law. He has appeared in every Division of the High Court, the Supreme Court of Appeal, the Constitutional Court and the High Court of eSwatini, and regularly appears in large commercial arbitrations. He also sits as an arbitrator, and leads forensic investigations and disciplinary enquiries for public bodies.
He has acted as a judge of the Gauteng Divisions of the High Court on several occasions between 2014 and 2016. His judgment in Diener NO v Minister of Justice, on the conversion of business rescue proceedings to liquidation and the ranking of the practitioner’s claim, was upheld by the Supreme Court of Appeal and the Constitutional Court (2019 (2) BCLR 214 (CC)). He is a past chairman of the Tax Board.
He has a long-standing commitment to constitutional and human rights litigation in the Southern African Development Community. He has acted for the People’s United Democratic Movement of eSwatini, including in the challenge to the Suppression of Terrorism Act, and for the independent media of eSwatini. He is applying for admission as an advocate of the High Court of Lesotho.
He has played a leading part in the governance of the profession. He is Chair of the Bar Council of the Johannesburg Society of Advocates for 2026/2027, having previously served on the Bar Council from 2018 to 2022, as its Vice-Chair, and as chair of its Treasury Committee. He is the National Chairperson of Advocates for Transformation and a past Chairperson of the General Council of the Bar of South Africa. He serves on the Legal Sector Charter Council and its Executive Committee and on the National Efficiency Enhancement Committee, and was elected by the profession to the Senior Honours Committee. He writes and speaks on legal ethics and the transformation of the profession.