About this webinar

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

30 & 31 March 2023 : 13:00 – 15:30

Closing date for registrations: 29 March 2023

This webinar 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 | 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 webinar is conducted in English only.
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