Thulani leads provincial legal practice council

HIGHVELD – A local attorney have been entrusted to lead the Mpumalanga Provincial Legal Practice Council.

Mr Thulani Kgomo, director of the TMN KGOMO & Associates Inc, was elected as the first chairman of the Mpumalanga Provincial Legal Practice Council on Tuesday, 30 April.

This is a new provincial substructure of the South African Legal Practice Council.

The Legal Practice Council is established as a body corporate with full legal capacity and exercises jurisdiction over all legal practitioners and candidate legal practitioners.

The objectives of the council include: facilitating the realisation of the goal of a transformed and restructured legal profession that is accountable, efficient and independent.

The Legal Practice Council has replaced the four statutory provincial law societies and the Bar Council for advocates which fulfilled the dual purpose of regulating and representing attorneys and advocates respectively.

It is believed that the establishment of the Legal Practice Council will usher in a transparent, transformed, public-centered and responsive profession.