Legal Practice Council tramples on indigenous languages in SA
23 January 2024
Solidarity rejects the Legal Practice Council’s (LPC’s) attempt to put its own interests above the interests of lawyers in general and particularly the interests of future lawyers by abolishing admission examinations for candidate attorneys in Afrikaans.
The Solidarity Law Network has not received any response from the LPC following the network’s recent letter addressed to the council in which it requested, among other things, to engage in discussions with the LPC.
The Solidarity Law Network strongly condemns the English only policy for the LPC’s attorneys’, notarial and title deed exams decided upon by the LPC in December without having consulted with stakeholders in the legal profession.
Riaan Visser, head of the Solidarity Law Network, says this amounts to blatant contempt of Afrikaans as an indigenous language.