Asha Sewpersad has been practising as an attorney since 1998 and is a CCMA accredited Commissioner. 

Asha is a Board Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Rental Housing Tribunal and ad-hoc Chairperson of the National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC) Disciplinary Committee. She was previously appointed as an ad-hoc Chairperson of the Disciplinary Committee of the South African Nursing Council Regulatory Authority. 

Asha has diverse and extensive experience in legal practice. Her experience includes drawing up commercial contracts, motor vehicle accident claims, wills and estates, personal injury claims, Road Accident Fund litigation and insurance arbitrations. She is a panellist on Tokiso’s Insurance Arbitration Panel. 

She is committed to the expeditious resolution of disputes, thereby saving parties both time and money. 

Asha is an executive member of the National Association of Democratic Lawyers and a member of the South African Women Lawyers Association, the South African Society for Labour Lawyers and the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA). 

She has served on various committees of the KwaZulu-Natal Law Society, such as the Gender Committee, Labour Law Committee, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Family Law and ad-hoc Complainants Committee. She is committed to social justice and has served the community as Small Claims Court Commissioner for the past 16 years. She has further served as an assessor in the High Court, a Presiding Officer for COIDA and a mediator for the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform Mediation Panel.