LAW SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA CALLS ON KWAZULU-NATAL LAW SOCIETY COUNCIL TO RESUME ITS STATUTORY FUNCTIONS WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT

‘The Law Society of South Africa (LSSA) has resolved that the Council of the KwaZulu-Natal Law Society must immediately resume its statutory obligations to protect the public and to carry out the regulation of its members,' say LSSA Co-Chairpersons, Max Boqwana and Ettienne Barnard (see report in The Mercury).

At its meeting this morning, the LSSA's Management Committee (Manco) discussed the recent developments that led to the KwaZulu-Natal Law Society's Council being rendered incapable of carrying out its regulatory functions and resolved that

• there should be recognition for provincial law societies' councillors outside the National Association of Democratic Lawyers (Nadel) and the Black Lawyers Association (BLA) to meet from time to time to consider issues of interest to the law societies, their councils and the profession;
• societies should make funding available for travel and accommodation in attending such meetings;
• law societies will ensure that there is a budget provision in the provincial law societies' budgets for such purposes; and
• such funding shall not be used in the pursuance of the interests of the South African Attorneys Association, its promotion, its agenda or any sectarian political interests.

Statement issued by Max Boqwana and Ettienne Barnard, Co-Chaipersons of the Law Society of South Africa, July 10 2014

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