New Legal Practice Council will regulate all legal practitioners and juristic entities
The new statutory body will be in place by November 1, and will replace all bar associations, which will become voluntary
A new statutory body that will regulate advocates and attorneys will be in place by November 1, justice and correctional services minister Michael Masutha announced on Tuesday. In 2014, then president Jacob Zuma signed the Legal Practice Bill into law, which paved the way for the establishment of the Legal Practice Council. This meant that all lawyers — both advocates and attorneys — would fall under a single regulatory body for the first time. According to the justice department, the implementation of the act will regulate all legal practitioners, candidate legal practitioners and juristic entities for the first time in the history of SA. Masutha said that the Legal Practice Council replaces the four statutory provincial law societies, which have, to date, fulfilled the dual purpose of regulating and representing attorneys. "Advocates and attorneys will now be regulated by the Legal Practice Council. Bar associations will no longer have the responsibility to regulate the profession...
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