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Foreign nationals without a permanent residence in South Africa will not be admitted and enrolled as practicing or non-practicing legal practitioners of the High Court. This after the Constitutional Court upheld that certain sections of the Legal Practice Act were not unconstitutional to the extent that it prohibited non-citizens to be admitted and enrolled as legal practitioners. The applicants, Relebohile Rafoneke and Sefoboko Tsuinyane, two Lesotho nationals who obtained their respective law qualifications in South Africa argued that restrictions on non-citizen lawyers from practicing in South Africa are unconstitutional. Elvis Presslin spoke to Chrispin Phiri, Spokesperson for the Ministry of Justice and Correctional Services...
By SAfmForeign nationals without a permanent residence in South Africa will not be admitted and enrolled as practicing or non-practicing legal practitioners of the High Court. This after the Constitutional Court upheld that certain sections of the Legal Practice Act were not unconstitutional to the extent that it prohibited non-citizens to be admitted and enrolled as legal practitioners. The applicants, Relebohile Rafoneke and Sefoboko Tsuinyane, two Lesotho nationals who obtained their respective law qualifications in South Africa argued that restrictions on non-citizen lawyers from practicing in South Africa are unconstitutional. Elvis Presslin spoke to Chrispin Phiri, Spokesperson for the Ministry of Justice and Correctional Services...

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