The Department of Justice and Correctional Development has gazetted an amendment to regulations within the Legal Practice Act, outlining new rules for community service for lawyers in the country.
Candidate practitioners will have to perform 8 hours of community service a year, while practising lawyers will be subject to 40 hours a year.The hours can be performed intermittently or continuously;Any extra hours of community services worked can be carried forward as credit for the next calendar year.
For practising lawyers, acting as a principal that supervises candidate practitioners also counts towards their own community service hours. Practicing lawyers also have to submit a signed certificate confirming the hours have been done to council.
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