Publish date | 14 July 2019 |
Issue Number | 669 |
Diary | Legalbrief Forensic |
Pretoria-based attorney Itumeleng Tlalang has been struck off the roll by the North Gauteng High Court for embezzling RAF funds. A report on the IoL site notes that acting Judge CI Moosa ruled in favour of an application brought by the SA Legal Practice Council (LPC), which took over the regulation of attorneys and advocates from the Law Society of SA in November. The council wanted Tlalang disbarred as an attorney for misappropriating RAF funds that were in her trust account. She is accused of allowing a lawyer suspended from the profession to practice under her law firm, Tlalang Attorneys, in 2016.Mashilo Bopape was suspended from the roll in 2013. The RAF smelt a rat when he settled several third party claims with the fund in the name of Tlalang Attorneys.