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UK lawyer wins bid to be admitted as advocate in South Africa after degree deemed compliant | SA News

The Western Cape High Court in Cape Town has ruled that a lawyer with a law degree from the United Kingdom meets the academic requirements to be admitted as an advocate in South Africa, finding that the Legal Practice Council (LPC) adopted an overly rigid interpretation of the law when it refused to recognise her qualifications.

In a judgment delivered on Wednesday, September 2, 2026, Judges Ashley Henney and James Wille found that Emer Anne Musselwhite’s Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and Master of Laws degrees obtained in the UK satisfied the Legal Practice Act’s requirement that a foreign law degree must be equivalent to a South African LLB and recognised by the South African…

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