Law firm ignored cautions on 'touting' - Law Society
Publish date: 19 June 2008
Issue Number: 2092
Diary: Legalbrief Today
Category: General
Partners at Durban law firm Meumann White had defiantly continued offering 'sweeteners' to mortgage originators and estate agents to secure conveyancing work, in spite of repeated cautions from the KwaZulu-Natal Law Society that they were breaking touting rules.
This was the gist of submissions made by Advocate Yoga Moodley, for the Law Society, in its application to have six past and present partners of the firm struck from the roll of attorneys. A report in The Mercury says the application in the Pietermaritzburg High Court is considered a test case of the society's strict rules about touting. The lawyers whose professions are on the line are Maria Davey, Robert Finlay, Bruce Forrest, Richard Grant, Angela Ness-Harvey and Robert White. They are adamant that they have done nothing wrong and only embarked on a legitimate marketing, promotion and advertising campaign. Full report in The Mercury (subscription needed)