[Promoted] LexisNexis SA calls on legal professionals to weigh in on compulsory community service proposals
this week called on members of the public, especially legal professionals, to weigh in on Section 29 of the Act to enable constructive debate and ensure essential access to the law is achieved.
While the Act does not define “community service”, it does suggest that it would include working for no pay for the State, the South African Human Rights Commission, acting as a judicial officer, or providing legal education and training on behalf of the Legal Practice Council, an NGO or an academic institution.
And they propose that candidate attorneys and pupil advocates only do eight hours of community service a year. The provision that pro bono work be considered as community service, meant that little would change for legal practitioners, except for the number of hours required. “They increase the hours but not onerously so,” he said.
“The logistics are not in place. It seems it has not been thoroughly thought through as to how service delivery, access to justice, can be addressed through community service,” he said.
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