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October 30, 2015

#RacistLaws in SA: Advocate teams must in future include black counsel This is how ridiculous and racist south Africa has become .....

"The resolution was — according to a press release from the Johannesburg Bar Council — adopted by an "overwhelming majority of over 90%".
From now on, if a team of counsel is made up of three or more members, and none of them are black, the lead counsel will be guilty of unprofessional conduct." 

Dali Mpofu. Picture: SOWETAN
Dali Mpofu. Picture: SOWETAN

Resolution follows embarrassment to profession in recent silicosis class action where, in case involving forty advocates, only three of were black


JOHANNESBURG advocates on Thursday evening voted to adopt a rule that any team of three or more advocates must contain at least one black counsel.
The resolution was — according to a press release from the Johannesburg Bar Council — adopted by an "overwhelming majority of over 90%".
From now on, if a team of counsel is made up of three or more members, and none of them are black, the lead counsel will be guilty of unprofessional conduct.
Lead counsel also has a responsibility to "take appropriate steps" to ensure that black women are "identified and given special, though not exclusive, preference".
The resolution followed the embarrassment to the profession in the recent silicosis class action where, in a case of involving forty advocates, only three of them were black.
Lead attorney in the case Richard Spoor fanned the flames when he said his five-member team was all white because he briefed "exceptional" counsel who were willing to work for a reduced fee.
The comments led to an unprecedented protest by advocates who — after obtaining permission — interrupted the silicosis case to make a statement condemning Mr Spoor’s comments and discriminatory briefing patterns.

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On Friday, chairman of the bar council Dali Mpofu SC said there were a number of role players who should share the blame but that it was "significant" that the bar had decided to "begin by cleaning its own house".
He said the legal profession ought properly to take the lead in "promoting and fulfilling the ideals" in the Constitution.
http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/law/2015/10/30/advocate-teams-must-in-future-include-black-counsel

Also read:
■ GENOCIDE & RACIST LAWS TO BAR ALL SKILLED ‘WHITE’ CITIZENS FROM ENTIRE LABOUR MARKET IN SA
Ethnic-cleansing of Afrikaners from their traditional farms, towns and cities through land-confiscation and armed violence:- .. also includes the government-directed removal of their cultural rights; the deliberate impoverishment of Afrikaners due to the near-total ban on access to the labour market in South Africa for all the Afrikaner-Boer workers under ANC-laws: creating hundreds of Afrikaner ghetto-shantytowns where children suffer starvation (denied both food-aid and government support-benefits): 


#StopWhiteGenocideInSA