Francois Lion-Cachet
Date Admitted as Advocate: 8 September 2025
- LLB, North-West University (2016)
- LLM (cum laude), North-West University (2019)
- PhD in legal rhetoric, University of Cape Town (expected
in 2026)
- Civil
- Commercial
- Competition
- Constitutional
- Administrative and Public
- Delict
- Family and Matrimonial
- Intellectual Property
- Labour
- Media
- Property, Housing and Land
- Environmental
- Insolvency
- Johannesburg Society of Advocates
Biography
Francois Lion-Cachet is an advocate at the Johannesburg Society of Advocates, practising in private and public law.
He worked at the Constitutional Court of South Africa, from 2018 to 2024, in a public engagement role for the Constitutional Court Trust.
He was the Dikgang Moseneke PhD Fellow at UCT Law’s Centre for Rhetoric Studies between 2022 and 2024, where he also held a Mellon Foundation scholarship. He was awarded his LLM in media law: cum laude, from the NWU, in 2019.