Need for transformation remains ‘necessary and urgent’ as court sets aside gazetting of Legal Sector Code
In a long-awaited ruling, yesterday a full bench of the High Court in Pretoria set aside a Ministerial decision to gazette a B-BBEE Legal Sector Code that leading firms had said was structurally flawed and unworkable, would undermine broader industry transformation, and had ‘unreasonable, impractical, and unrealistic’ operational targets