Stowell & Co was established as a private legal practice in 1945 by Errol Walter Stowell. Over its more than sixty years of practice, the firm has grown from a single practitioner establishment to an Incorporated Company of twelve Directors, two Associates, two Consultants,and several Professional Assistants and Candidate Attorneys.

The Partnership became an Incorporated Company in 1996, and can be considered to be one of the largest KwaZulu-Natal legal practices outside of Durban .

The Company has been operating from its current premises at 295 Pietermaritz Street , Pietermaritzburg since 1989. The building, which is a Listed Building and which has won a number of architectural awards, is wholly owned by the Company. The building is ideally situated, being diagonally opposite the Deeds Registry, the Surveyor General's Office, the High Court and the Magistrate's Court.

Our services include the following:

Property Law
Commercial Law
Litigation
Debt Recoveries
Deceased Estates and Trusts
Labour Law
Liquidations and Insolvencies