Ashraf Mahomed is an attorney with rights of appearance in the High Court. He currently practises under the firm Ashraf Mahomed Attorneys in Claremont, Cape Town.

Ashraf has acquired experience in most areas of  law, but specialist expertise in high court litigation, constitutional law, administrative law, public law, alternative dispute resolution (mediation, arbitration and facilitation), land reform law and project management. He has represented high-profile clients as well as poor individuals and communities. 

He was appointed as an Acting Judge of the High Court (Western Cape Division) for two terms and dealt with various complex civil and criminal cases. Ashraf is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Public Law at the University of Cape Town (UCT). He is the principle author and editor of two books on land tenure law and has attended various law conferences both locally and internationally. 

Previously he was an equity director of CTH Inc. and prior to that he served as the provincial head of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC). He also practiced as an attorney at the Legal Resources Centre in Cape Town focussing on land, housing and development cases. 

Ashraf currently serves as a board member of the Dullah Omar Institute (DOI) for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights at the University of the Western Cape. He is a longstanding member of the National Association of Democratic Lawyers (NADEL), formerly the branch chairperson in the Western Cape and presently serves on its national executive. Ashraf served two terms as President of the Cape Law Society (CLS) and on various committees. He currently serves on Legal Practice Council (WC) Disciplinary Committee and the Candidate Attorneys Committee.

Ashraf successfully conducted an extensive and complex mediation process at UCT between the UCT executive management team and protesting students during the Fees Must Fall campaign in 2016/17. This intervention culminated in the restoration of the academic programme, the establishment of an independent Institutional Reconciliation and Transformation Commission (IRTC) and the termination of the protests. 

He has focussed primarily on the areas of labour mediation, family mediation and land reform mediation and developed specialist mediation expertise, experience and skills in the period spanning almost two decades. Since 2007, he has designed various bespoke lands rights mediation training programmes under the auspices of the Land Rights Management Facility of the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform.