‘Transformation becomes a moving target,’ Terry Motau tells court
Adv Terry Motau SC told the Pretoria High Court on Thursday that attorneys remain central to briefing decisions at the Bar and cannot avoid responsibility for patterns... Read more.
‘The white world doesn’t want us’: Muzi Sikhakhane argues in court
Adv Muzi Sikhakhane delivered an impassioned defence of the Legal Sector Code in the Pretoria High Court, arguing that judges must place South Africa’s racial... Read more.
High court hears how black advocates were blocked from progress
The Pretoria High Court heard on Thursday how transformation battles within the advocates’ profession stretch back decades, with senior counsel recounting resistance... Read more.
Legal Sector Code opponents exaggerate impact on firms, court hears
Claims that the Legal Sector Code will have a “catastrophic” effect on law firms are exaggerated and unsupported by expert evidence, Advocate Bogoshi Bokaba... Read more.
Black advocates still struggle for access to work, high court told
South Africa will struggle to transform its judiciary unless black advocates and women receive meaningful access to work at the bar, Advocate Norman Arendse SC told... Read more.
‘You cannot separate transformation from apartheid history’, court told in BBBEE battle
Adv Zinzile Matebese, appearing for Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi before the High Court in Pretoria on Wednesday, argued that the challenge to the Legal Sector... Read more.
BBC backs Legal Sector Code in transformation court battle
The Black Business Council (BBC) has thrown its weight behind the Legal Sector Code, describing the court challenge brought by several major law firms as an attack... Read more.
State says transformed judiciary impossible without transformed law firms
South Africa cannot build a judiciary that reflects the country’s racial and gender demographics while major law firms remain structurally untransformed, Adv Zinzile... Read more.
Transformation is non-negotiable, minister’s lawyer tells court in B-BBEE case
A counsel for the minister of trade and industry, Parks Tau, on Wednesday defended the Legal Sector Code in court as a constitutional obligation aimed at advancing... Read more.
Spectrum rule rattles telecoms sector
A clause in the Electronic Communications Amendment Bill seeking to force mobile network operators to share unused high demand spectrum with smaller players... Read more.
