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LJU4802 Assignment 1 SOLUTIONS YEAR 2024
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PROFESSIONAL ETHICS (LJU4802)
ASSIGNMENT 02
YEAR 2024
QUESTION 1
1.1
The Legal Practice Council of South Africa
1.2
The Legal Practice Act1 seeks to establish a legislative framework for the restructuring
and change of the legal profession in accordance with constitutional requirements in order
to support and strengthen an autonomous legal profession that broadly reflects South
Africa's diversity and demographics; to provide for the creation, authority, and duties of a
single South African Legal Practice Council and Provincial Councils in order to control the
activities of attorneys and establish guidelines; to allow attorneys to be admitted and
enrolled; to control attorneys' professional conduct in order to guarantee responsible
behavior; to establish a Legal Practitioners' Fidelity Fund and a Board of Control for the
Fidelity Fund; to establish a National Forum on the Legal Profession and to specify its
powers and functions; to provide for the appointment, establishment, and operation of a
Legal Services Ombud; and to address matters related thereto.
QUESTION 2
2.1 Legal Practice Act 28 of 2014
2.2 A professional code of ethics, in general, proposes a list of moral principles to give
legal practitioners a foundation for the moral practice of law. Among other reasons, a code
of legal ethics usually aims to:
• emphasize the need for professionals to serve the public interest and justice in order to
preserve the professional nature of legal services.
• rectify the unbalanced interaction between the client and the professional
• preserve public trust and confidence
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Legal Practice Act 28 of 2014.
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