Adv Doris Goodenough

Advocate and accredited mediator, with over 30 years’ experience in RAF litigation.
Participated in the capacities of observer, co-mediator and lead mediator in 8 mediations in the SAMLA-RAF mediation pilot project in 2020, 2021 and 2022)
Has presided as an Acting Judge in the RAF Default judgment Courts on two occasions
MEDIATION TRAINING HISTORY most recent at the top, oldest at the bottom)
10 May 2025 CONFLICT DYNAMICS: "Understanding the RAF Administrative and Legal Context to ensure Effective Mediation"
7 to 11 April 2025 MEDIATION IN MOTION 60 hour course: Live-Online Advocates, Attorneys and other qualified legal practitioners mediation training course
16 April 2021. SOUTH AFRICAN ASSOCIATION OF MEDIATORS (SAAM) Mediation Webinar :"Dealing with Reluctant Parties in Mediation"
17 to 18 October 2018 SOUTH AFRICAN ASSOCIATION OF MEDIATORS (SAAM) “Evaluative/Collaborative Mediation” workshop.
22 September 2017. CONFLICT DYNAMICS: Mediation of Medical Negligence and Personal Injury Claims”
11 to 15 December 2017 LEAD/LSSA 40 hour course: ‘Civil Mediation Training course’
1996 FAMILY LIFE CENTRE Divorce Mediation training course
1996 ARBITRATION FOUNDATION OF SOUTH AFRICA (AFSA)Commercial Mediation training course

Ian Dutton

Acting Judge of the High Court of South Africa;
Advocate of the High Court of the Republic of South Africa - 1997 to present;
Qualified Commercial Mediator: The University of Cape Town;
Accredited Mediator: Mediation in Motion; Member: The Society of Advocates of KwaZulu-Natal – 1997 to present
Committee Member: Mensa KZN
Committee Member:
In House Attorney: The AIDS Law Project, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, The University of the Witwatersrand
Member: The World Association of Medical Lawyers
Member: The International Bar Association
Member: The Royal Society of Medicine | Member: The American College of Legal Medicine
Convenor: South African Medico-Legal Coalition Task Team for the Private Sector – 2017 to 2019
Member of the National Executive Committee of the South African Medico-Legal Association – 2016 to 2019
Board Member: The South African Medico-Legal Association – 2016 to 2019
Member of Faculty: Postgraduate Certificate Training Course in Medico-Legal Practice presented by SAMLA and the University of Cape Town – 1997 to 2019
Chairperson: The South African Medico-Legal Association, KwaZulu-Natal Branch – 2016 to 2019
Editor, The South African Medico-Legal Reports: 2024

Dr Herman Edeling

Dr Herman Edeling obtained his M.B.,B.Ch. Degree at the University of the
Witwatersrand in 1975. In 1992 he qualified as a neurosurgeon with Fellowship
of the College of Surgeons of South Africa. In 2009 he obtained the ABIME
(American Board of Independent Medical Examiners) CIME (Certified
Independent Medical Examiner) qualification. In 2016 he qualified as a DISAC
(South African Dispute Settlement Accreditation Council) accredited mediator
by completing the UCT/MiM Commercial and Health Sector Mediation training.

He practised as a GP in private practice for 10 years, and as a neurosurgeon in
private practice for 16 years. Since 2008 he has limited his practice to
consulting and medico-legal neurosurgery.

He served SAMLA (South African Medico Legal Association) as director from
2005 to 2020, in various capacities as deputy chairperson, faculty principal,
clinical negligence director and mediation director, and in 2020 was awarded
honorary life membership. In SAMLA he led the development of a series of
pioneering UCT-partnered postgraduate training courses in medico-legal
practice; guidelines and protocols for medical mediation; clinical negligence

mediation pilot projects with provincial departments of health; and the SAMLA-
RAF personal injury mediation pilot project.

He has also served the HPCSA-RAF Appeal Tribunals as member and as
chairperson; as well as the Association for the Protection of Road Accident
Victims (APRAV) as chairperson of the Solutions Task Team Medical
Committee.

He has co-authored three publications in peer reviewed journals on serious
injury determination, the narrative test and the functioning of HPCSA appeal
tribunals. He has written thousands of medico-legal reports and has testified in
court as an expert witness in hundreds of matters. He has participated as a
mediation trainer for UCT/MiM as well as SAMLA, and has mediated 39
medico-legal disputes.

He is passionate about medical science, ethical practice and the promotion of
mutual respect and understanding. He believes in the capacity of the mediation

process to resolve conflict by harnessing the power of constructive self-
determination of the parties to the dispute.

Adv Nokulunga Makopo

ADV NOKULUNGA MAKOP0
Practicing Advocate since 1999
More than 20 years' experience in RAF litigation
More than 10 years' experience in medical negligence mediation
Represented Plaintiffs in medical mediations against the MEC Health Gauteng > 7 matters
Acting Judge of the High Court - 2014 and 2024
Acting Judge of the Labour Court -2023
Qualification in Dispute Resolution (AFSA)
Member of IoDSA
Civil/Divorce Mediation training - LEAD (Online)
Board Memberships:
Property Practitioner Regulatory Authority ( November 2021 - to date) and currently serving on these following committees':
Social and Ethics Committee
Industry Transformation Committee
Human Resources and RemunerationCommittee
Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital
Serving on the Audit and Legal Committee (August 2022 - to date)
Independent Tribunal Social Development
Chairperson of the Appeals Adjudication

Sheena St Clair Jonker

Sheena St Clair Jonker founded ADR Network SA in 2006. It operates as a training platform and voluntary compliance body for mediators and arbitrators. It is also a private dispute resolution agency and a Recognized Mediation Organization (RMO) and member of ADRP-SA.

Sheena also founded the Access to Justice Association of SA in 2012 an NPO which exists to mobilize legal and dispute resolution resource for vulnerable persons and communities.

For the first decade of her career she practised as an attorney. Having trained as a mediator and arbitrator in her first year of practice, almost three decades ago, she was committed to non-adversarial dispute resolution and restorative justice from early on. She has spent the last two decades wholly committed to building, teaching and practising non-adversarial and restorative methods of solving legal and other problems. She has pioneered ADR approaches in a vast array of matters including access to land, housing and services, public violence matters, administrative law matters and personal injury matters. This, in addition to the more well-known applications of ADR in Divorce and Family, Commercial and Labour Disputes.

She has offered training in Medical Negligence and Personal Injury for two decades and has incorporated Road Accidents since 2020. She has experience in Road Accidents both in her former practice as an attorney, and was part of Mediating RAF matters for the SAMLA pilot project which commenced in 2020.


Sheena is also a writer and has written extensively in various aspects of Law, ADR and Restorative Justice throughout her career. She is a contributing author of J Kim Wright’s Lawyer’s as Changemakers and is a recognized member of the International Integrative Law Movement.

Having taught law for almost three decades and ADR and restorative justice over the past two decades, she is frequently retained internationally and locally as a speaker and educator.

Sheena lives with a walking disability and competes as a powerlifter, currently holding the gold in her category both provincially and nationally with her sights set on Commonwealth in 2026 and Paralympics in 2028.

She has a special message of the ability to build strength within limitation and promotes whole-wellness amongst her mediators promoting daily disciplines to help keep them grounded and still-minded with the ability to remain a non-violent presence in all kinds of difficult environments.

She also advocates for law graduates with disabilities to explore ADR as a first profession as she has found it to be not only more accessible to parties to disputes but also a physically ,more accessible way of applying her own skills and experience whilst courts remain significantly difficult to access for anyone with physical difficulty.

Finally, she writes about and teaches a justice that heals and has found mediation to be the most accessible pathway towards a healing justice: a justice where we work to make things right again and to work toward a position where everyone can come away with what they need.