JUDGES in the Eastern Cape are so fed up with lawyers ripping off their clients that they have set up a committee to “stop the rot”. This emerges from a judgment in a case involving an East London attorney who signed a contingency agreement with a man who was seriously injured when a bakkie mowed him down in the Queenstown township of Ezibeleni in 2014. After calling the conduct of Bulelani Rubushe “unscrupulous‚ rapacious and unconscionable‚” Judge Clive Plasket said: “Unfortunately‚ in this jurisdiction‚ this is a problem that is all too common.” Plasket said the cases that ended up in court were “in all likelihood‚ but the tip of the iceberg”.
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