About this webinar and what the programme includes

The Financial Intelligence Centre Act, as amended, requires that practising legal practitioners must identify, assess, monitor, mitigate and manage the risks of legal services in relation to facilitating money laundering activities or the financing of terrorist and related activities or combating the proliferation of financing activities.

In doing so, legal practitioners are required to develop, document, maintain and implement a Risk Management and Compliance Programme with appropriate controls and measures.

You will benefit from this webinar by being informed of the key FICA-compliance requirements to operate a legal practice.

Course content

•    What is FICA?
•    Registration requirements in terms of FICA
•    What is a risk-based approach?
•    What is a Risk and Compliance Management Programme
•    FiC audits and the Legal firms
•    Responsibilities of the FICA Officer

Presenter

Alta van der Walt obtained her BA Business Management degree at Griffiths University and worked as a practice manager for more than 25 years. Good business practices and business management is her passion. Ms van der Walt also lectured for the Law Society of South Africa’s Legal Education and Development (LEAD) division for almost 16 years.

Who should register?

Key individuals or the FICA Officer or person appointed to oversee and manage compliance with FICA.

Registration fee categories (including VAT):

•    Practising legal practitioners and other staff from legal firms: R770 per person.
•    Non-practising legal practitioners/others: R1 050 per person.

Kindly note that you can only register online and that there are limited places available. Participants should be registered individually to enable the system to generate a unique username and password for each person.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER 

E-mail: Yolanda@LSSALEAD.org.za  | Please note we only communicate via e-mail should you need more information.

• The LSSA will not accept liability if the fees are not paid into the designated LSSA bank account.
• The course is conducted in English only.
• The course will be delivered through MS TEAMS. Please ensure that you have MS TEAMS installed on your computer prior to the commencement of the course.
• The course will be conducted by the presenter on the foundation of a pre-recording. According to Company Policy and copyright protection, no recordings or the PowerPoint presentation will be made available after the course.
• You will receive the material as well as the link to the course via email, +-24 hours before commencement of the course.  If you do not receive the said email, look in your junk mail folder. If it is not there, contact Yolanda Singh on Yolanda@LSSALEAD.org.za
• No cancellations will be accepted after the course material and link have been shared. Participants who do not cancel timeously and/or fail to attend the webinar will forfeit the amount paid towards this course.
• Should you need to cancel your registration, you need to do so in writing before the course link and material are shared. No cancelation will be accepted after it has been made available and failure to comply with this will result in the full fee being charged.
• LEAD might record the course for QA purposes. According to Company policy and copyright protection, recordings or the PowerPoint presentation will not be made available after the course.
• LSSA/LEAD shall have the right in its sole discretion to postpone or cancel tuition in any programme initially advertised and offered based on insufficient demand. Should LSSA/LEAD cancel the proposed training, registered delegates will be given reasonable notice of the cancellation and all fees paid by the delegate will be refunded.

LEAD is one of the largest providers of legal and professional education in South Africa and has been accredited as a legal education provider by the Legal Practice Council for 2023. LEAD provides access to quality learning that is relevant, accessible and affordable. LEAD offers an extensive range of learning activities and training options.