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LEGAL PRACTICE ACT: DRAFT AMENDMENT BILL OUT FOR COMMENT
- 07 August 2026
- Justice & Constitutional Development
- SA Legal Academy
Please note: On 11 August 2026, the Minister issued a media statement providing further insights into the draft Bill – along with three other proposed new pieces of legislation recently approved by Cabinet for public consultation. On 5 August 2026, an opening statement made by the Deputy Minister on the Judicial Matters Amendment Bill now before Parliament included details on additional proposed amendments to the Legal Practice Act proposed in that Bill.
The Department of Justice & Constitutional Development has gazetted a notice calling for input by 11 September 2026 on a draft Legal Practice Amendment Bill.
Approved by Cabinet on 29 July 2026 for the required public consultation process, according to a media statement on the meeting concerned the draft Bill seeks to:
- ‘streamline the administrative structures of the legal sector while advancing transformation’
- introduce ‘structural changes to the Legal Practitioners’ Fidelity Fund to strengthen financial sustainability and enhance public protection’
- strengthen various provisions in the principal statute to:
- ‘support the development and enhancement of (the) skills of legal practitioners’
- ‘improve access to the legal profession’
- ‘promote access to justice’, and
- ‘address practical challenges’ arising during the Act’s implementation.
Please clck the links below for more information:
- draft Bill
- Government Gazette notice (also referring to two other draft Bills featured in separate reports)
- Cabinet media statement
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