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Legal Practice Act, 2014 (Act No. 28 of 2014)

Chapter 4 : Professional Conduct and Establishment of Disciplinary Bodies

36. Code of conduct

 

(1) The Council must develop a code of conduct that applies to all legal practitioners and all candidate legal practitioners and may review and amend such code of conduct.

 

(2) The code of conduct serves as the prevailing standard of conduct, which legal practitioners, candidate legal practitioners and juristic entities must adhere to, and failure to do so constitutes misconduct.

 

(3) The Council must take all reasonable steps to—
(a) publicise the existence of the code of conduct;
(b) inform members of the public of the contents of the code of conduct, including its enforcement procedures; and
(c) inform members of the public of how and where to obtain a copy thereof.

 

(4) The code of conduct and every subsequent amendment must be published in the Gazette and the rules.

 

(5) Before the Council publishes a code of conduct or any amendment thereof under this section, the Council must publish a draft of the proposed code of conduct in the Gazette together with a notice, calling on interested persons to comment in writing within a period stated in the notice, which may not be less than 30 days from the date of publication of the notice.