DA fuming at Legal Practice Council’s English-only decision
The DA has expressed concern over what it calls a tendency to promote English as the only language used in the country’s courts for operations and records.
It’s been reacting to the Legal Practice Council’s decision only to allow entrance exams for candidate lawyers in English, and not in Afrikaans.
The council issued a notice last month advising that their exams would be offered in English only from this year onwards.
The DA believes the move shows disregard for the guarantee of linguistic variety in the constitution.
The party's Werner Horn says they would like the council to review the policy.
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"This decision undermines constitutional ideal to give proper effect to the status of all our official languages and abolishes the rights that Afrikaans speaking candidate practitioners enjoyed up to now to write their exams in their mother tongue.
"The legal practice council must look into ways and means to accommodate other non-English speakers during the exam also with the view to insure the administration of justice is not undermined by an enforcing an 'English only' rule.
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