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

Chapter 6 : Legal Practitioners' Fidelity Fund

Part 3 : Claims against Fund

79. Actions against Fund

 

(1) The Fund is not obliged to pay any portion of a claim which could reasonably be recovered from any other person liable.

 

(2) The Fund may pay all reasonable expenses and legal costs incurred by a claimant in exhausting his or her rights of action against another person.

 

(3) The Fund may, in its discretion, before deciding whether to make full payment of a claim or any part of it, make an interim payment to the claimant of a portion of the amount for which his or her claim has been admitted.

 

(4) Any action against the Fund in respect of loss suffered by any person as a result of theft committed by a legal practitioner referred to in section 84(1), candidate attorney or employee of any such legal practitioner or juristic entity, must be instituted within one year of the date of a notification directed to that person or his or her legal representative by the Fund, informing him or her that the Fund rejects the claim to which the action relates.

 

(5) In any action against the Fund all defences which would have been available to the person against whom the claim arose, are available to the Fund.

 

(6) Any action against the Fund may, subject to the provisions of this Act, be brought in any court having jurisdiction in respect of the claim.