ASSIGNMENT 1
DUE DATE: 23 MARCH 2026
, LJU4802 ASSIGNMENT 1 2026
DUE 23 MARCH 2026
Question 1
1.1 Name the applicant in the Spies-case.
Legal Practice Council (LPC).¹
¹ Legal Practice Council v Jo Francois Spies (Case No: 55628/20) [2022] ZAGPPHC 654 (13 September
2022) para 1.
1.2 With reference to applicable legislation, describe the purpose of the applicant
identified in
To act as the overarching regulatory body for all legal practitioners and candidate legal
practitioners in South Africa.² Its primary objectives, as set out in the Legal Practice Act
28 of 2014, are to: