About this online course

The aim of this course is to equip delegates with a better understanding of legal costs in order to run a more efficient practice to serve in the best interests of their clients. This course provides a better understanding between civil litigious and non-litigious matters and the consequence thereof. The concept of legal costs and a general understanding will form the basis followed by practical training.

There will be a section covered on thorough analysis of Section 35 of the Legal Practice Act 28 of 2014 and the implications of the innovations in regard to attorneys / client relationships in respect of legal costs.

The programme will include:

Session 1: (Day 1)

• Introduction to legal costs
• Contingency fee agreements
• Accounting to clients
• Office administration and costs
• Ethics in relation to costs
• Non-litigious matters
• Civil litigious matters
• Different cost orders
• Prescribed tariffs

Session 2: (Day 2)

• Drawing bills of costs
• Settling a bill of costs
• Formal requirements for taxation
• Taxation
• Review of taxation
• Recovery of costs
• Value added tax

Presenter

Cornelius Meiring was admitted as a legal practitioner of the High court in February 1997. He was also admitted as a conveyancer in 2002 and has been in full time practice as an attorney and conveyancer for the past 26 years. Cornelius become involved with LEAD in 2006 and has been presenting various topics for the past 18 years. The subjects / topics he presents include Legal Practice Accounts Management, Wills, Estates, Trusts and Legal Costs among others. He is also a guest lecturer at the North West University , where he presents Accounting for Legal Practitioners. Cornelius is also part of the LPCs Disciplinary Committee and Fee Dispute Resolution Committee. ​

30 November and 1 December 2023 : 13:00 to +/-16:00

Closing date for registrations: 29 November 2023.

This course usually fills up quickly!!

Certification
All sessions are mandatory to qualify for a certificate.

Practising legal practitioners specialising in litigation, candidate legal practitioners and non-practising legal practitioners/legal support  staff.

Registration fee categories (including VAT):
•    Practising legal practitioners and other staff from legal firms: R 1 420 per person.
•    Non-practising legal practitioners/others: R 2 190 per person.

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

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Email: Yolanda@LSSALEAD.org.za or Tel No 012 441 4652

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