One assumes that the report of the Gauteng Law Council as contained in the annual report of the Law Society, which should be arriving in attorneys’ post boxes now, is incorrect, containing as it does the following sentence, “The Gauteng Law Council contributed financially to the recent successfully concluded court case against the Road Accident Fund”. The Law Societies have of course levied their members, many years ago, and the Gauteng Law Council has budgeted more than R500 000,00 towards the Road Accident Fund campaign, but this battle which was led by the LSSA, has been paid for by them and SAAPIL and Raj Daya confirmed to me, on 27 October 2008, that no contribution had been received by the Gauteng Law Council and nor had any of the legal expenses of the direct payments challenge been paid for by the Gauteng Law Council. That is of course the recent successful court case, but on the other hand, there may well be some other case the Gauteng Law Council had recently been involved in and about which I know nothing.
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