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Attorneys usually specialise in one area, such as Family Law, Property Law, Tax Law, or Commercial law. Attorneys may form professional firms and practice in partnerships, [2] ranging in size to the "Big Five" law firms. The profession is regulated by the Attorneys Act, 1979 (Act No. 53 of 1979). [3]
This List of bar associations in Africa includes bar associations in countries in Africa, many of which were members of the International Bar Association as of 2017. [1] The East Africa Law Society includes many individual members plus six national Bar associations: Law Society of Kenya, Tanganyika Law Society, Uganda Law Society, Zanzibar Law Society, Kigali Bar Association and Burundi Bar ...
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Countries (in pink) which share the mixed South African legal system. South Africa has a 'hybrid' or 'mixed' legal system, [1] formed by the interweaving of a number of distinct legal traditions: a civil law system inherited from the Dutch, a common law system inherited from the British, and a customary law system inherited from indigenous Africans (often termed African Customary Law, of which ...
South Africa's legal system is founded on constitutional supremacy, which means that all laws and actions by the state must comply with the Constitution. The Constitution is the highest law and includes a comprehensive Bill of Rights that protects the civil, political, and socio-economic rights of all individuals.
A law society is an association of lawyers with a regulatory role that includes the right to supervise the training, qualifications, and conduct of lawyers. Where there is a distinction between barristers and solicitors , solicitors are regulated by the law societies and barristers by a separate bar council .
The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, as the supreme law of the Republic, provides the overarching framework for civil procedure; [6] the Constitution has been responsible for significant changes to civil procedure since its inception in the 1990s, as in, for example, debt collection matters, [7] access to the courts [8] and prescription, in particular with respect to ...