LSB roasted, harshly punished for plethora of charges

Friday, September 06, 2019

The Law Society of Botswana (LSB) has been accused of being unfair, naive, or reckless in the manner it frustrated prominent attorney, Parks Tafa and Collins Newman and Company (CNC) in dealing with the outfit’s application for a practicing licence early this year.

In view of the transgression, the High Court hit the legal practitioner’s oversight entity with punitive costs at attorney-client scale.

Tafa and his law firm in June this year found themselves in the list of non-compliant firms and attorneys as it was publicised that its trust account was non-compliant.

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