Archive for June, 2022

Hope is slowly being restored as black women lead the courts

x Bookmark The Black Lawyers Association (BLA) held its National General Meeting (NGM) on 21 May 2022 in Kimberley, under the theme ‘45 years later: Walking in the footsteps of […]

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SADC LA reaffirms its commitment to promote harmonisation of laws and mobility of legal practitioners

x Bookmark The Southern African Development Community Lawyers Association (SADC LA) held its 21st Annual Conference and General Meeting (ACGM), in Johannesburg South Africa (SA), in March 2022 under the […]

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Justice Department budget allocation to accelerate work impacted by the pandemic

x Bookmark Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Ronald Lamola, virtually presented the Budget Vote for the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DOJCD) 2022/23 on 17 May 2022. Mr […]

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Comment on community service for legal practitioners

x Bookmark Section 29 of the Legal Practice Act 28 of 2014 (LPA) provides for the rendering of community service by candidate legal practitioners and practising legal practitioners. The Law […]

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Letters to the editor – June 2022

x Bookmark PO Box 36626, Menlo Park 0102 Docex 82, Pretoria E-mail: derebus@derebus.org.za Fax: (012) 362 0969 Letters are not published under noms de plume. However, letters from practising attorneys […]

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People and Practices – June 2022

x Bookmark Compiled by Shireen Mahomed Obituary: Legal practitioner and founder of Cox Yeats, Graham Cox, passed away on Friday, 6 May 2022, several days before his 90th birthday in […]

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The rule of law in Africa

x Bookmark The below report has been compiled using the World Justice Project (WJP) Rule of Law Index 2021. For this Africa Day, the Law Society of South Africa thought […]

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Are you over promising and under delivering?

x Bookmark One of the triggers of a breakdown in the relationship between a legal practitioner and a client is when the client, justifiably or not, realises that the outcome […]

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The rights of the non-parent

x Bookmark The position of the ‘non-parent’ is increasingly becoming more relevant in our day and age. ‘Non-parents’ are described as those individuals who play a role of caretaker in […]

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Understanding the amicus curiae role in litigation and how it affects costs orders

x Bookmark   The term amicus curiae is loosely translated from Latin as a ‘friend of the court’. This traditionally refers to a person (natural or juristic) who is admitted […]

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