Black lawyers take legal action to force Patel to gazette BEE legal sector code

Organisations representing black lawyers have filed papers with the Pretoria High Court to compel the Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition to gazette the Legal Sector Code of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act to facilitate transformation in the sector.

The organisations represent black lawyers and are led by the Black Conveyancers Association, the National Association of Democratic Lawyers, the Black Lawyers Association, and the Pan African Bar Association of South Africa. The judge questioned whether the absence of a single black lawyer did not amount to a violation of the equality clause of Section 9 of the Constitution.

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