The chairperson of the Ombudsman for Banking Services (OBS), Advocate John Myburgh S.C., today announced the appointment of the successor of outgoing Ombudsman Advocate Neville Melville.

Advocate Clive Pillay will be taking over as Ombudsman on 1 May, 2007.

Hailing from the Eastern Cape, Advocate Pillay will be coming across to the OBS from the Asset Forfeiture Unit where he is currently regional head, Gauteng. A qualified lawyer, Advocate Pillay has attained LLM degrees in Constitutional Interpretation and International Law.

Advocate Pillay previously practised as a senior partner in the firm Pillay, Mayer, Boqwana Attorneys until 2004. During that time he acted on various occasions as a judge in the Eastern Cape High Court. He left practice to become Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions for the National Prosecuting Authority of South Africa in Johannesburg and was enrolled as an advocate of the High Court of South Africa

Advocate Pillay is a member of Lawyers for Human Rights and the National Association of Democratic Lawyers.