Advocates ordered to refund RAF

THIRTEEN Pretoria advocates who milked the Road Accident Fund will have to pay back more than R15,6-million of their ill-gotten gains, the Pretoria high court heard The advocates accepted multiple cases on the same day (so-called double briefing) and charged a full day's fee for each case (over-reaching), a practice that had become rife in Pretoria in 2009.

September 30, 2011 at 08:41 am

THIRTEEN Pretoria advocates who milked the Road Accident Fund will have to pay back more than R15,6-million of their ill-gotten gains, the Pretoria high court heard

The advocates accepted multiple cases on the same day (so-called double briefing) and charged a full day's fee for each case (over-reaching), a practice that had become rife in Pretoria in 2009.

Retired judges Kees van Dijkhorst, Piet Combrinck and William de Villiers struck advocates Thillay Pillay, Theunis Botha, Toy de Klerk, Percy Leopeng, Daniel Mogagabe and French Bezuidenhout off the roll and ordered them to repay the RAF.

Advocates Brenton Geach SC, Don Williams SC, Stef Güldenpfennig, Mark Upton, Ephraim Seima, Cassie Jordaan and Colin van Onselen were given a year to repay the RAF and were also given suspended sentences.

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