Admission as a legal practitioner (attorney or advocate)
For: Lawyers and law graduates qualified abroad.
- Have your foreign degree evaluated: it must be recognised as equivalent to the South African LLB by the South African Qualifications Authority.
- Complete the practical vocational training and legal-practice management course required of candidate legal practitioners.
- Pass the Legal Practice Council's admission examination.
- Be admitted by the High Court as an attorney or an advocate. You must also be fit and proper and, in general, a South African citizen or permanent resident.
Citizens of some neighbouring countries have a special position under the Act. Check the Legal Practice Council's current rules.
