Mark Antrobus SC has been a full-time practising advocate at the Johannesburg Bar since July 1984. His senior Counsel status was conferred in 2006. Prior to joining the bar, Mark was an admitted attorney and practised at Deneys Reitz Attorneys and the Legal Resources Centre.

Mark was appointed as an Acting Judge of the High Court in the Witwatersrand Local Division in 2008.

Mark’s practice is a broad general civil practice with four focus areas of some specialisation being (1) labour and employment law, (2) arbitration and alternative dispute resolution (3) mineral and mining law and (4) motor law.

Mark trained in ADR as both a mediator and arbitrator and was admitted to the Independent Mediation Service of South Africa (IMSSA) panel of mediators in 1983 and panel of arbitrators in 1987. Mark has been appointed as a private arbitrator in well over 200 private voluntary arbitrations, primarily, though not exclusively, in labour disputes. More recently, labour arbitrations in which he has been engaged as arbitrator have tended to involve disputes concerning very senior executives.

Mark has mediated in a number of commercial disputes since 1993 including disputes concerning manufacturing contracts, building contracts, professional fees, intellectual property, local government land issues and tourism industry disputes. He has sat as an Acting Judge in the High Court Witwatersrand Local Division in commercial disputes. For seven years he has served as the chairman of the Exemptions Appeal Tribunal for the National Bargaining Council for the Road Freight Industry. Mark has sat in the Labour Appeal Court as an assessor. Mark was appointed in 2002 by the Minister of Minerals and Energy to co-chair an Enquiry in terms of Section 65 of the Mines and Health Act into the death of 19 persons in a methane explosion.