LETTER: Legal Practice Act is unconstitutional
Independence is integral to the rule of law and a guarantor of the independence of the judiciary
11 November 2020 - 14:14
The demise of our constitutionally guaranteed “freedom of association”, and the concomitant right to engage the lawyer of your choice, will be the outcome of the proposed implementation of the scheme foreshadowed in the plans of the Legal Practice Council to introduce a code of conduct for lawyers.
Using race as a surrogate for disadvantage is coming home to roost. How anyone who is a qualified lawyer can properly be described as “disadvantaged” for the purposes envisaged by section 9 of the constitution is hard to fathom. Especially so 30 years-plus after the death-knell of apartheid...
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