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As a legal network, member firms make extensive use of other legal service providers. As part
of the Group BEE Standards, member firms prioritise where possible the use of black-owned
legal service providers such as sheriffs, tracing agents, law firms, etc. The result has been
R58.5 million in expenditure on black-owned legal service providers in 2022 and R64 million in
2023. 2022

2023
R58,5m R64m

to black-owned legal service providers to black-owned legal service providers

Briefing Black Advocates

With many rural firms having limited opportunity to brief counsel directly and generally working
through correspondent firms in urban centres, the ability to influence the briefing patterns of
advocates is not always firmly under member firm control.

Yet, by prioritising the briefing of black male and female advocates as part of the PH Group
BEE Standards, briefing patterns have increased substantially moving from R7.5 million in 2020
and 2021, to R20.5 million in briefs to black advocates during 2022 and 2023. Likewise, black
female advocate briefing also increased, moving from R2 million in 2020 and 2021 to R3.5
million during 2022 and 2023.

R7.5 R20.5 R2 R3.5

million million million million

in briefs to black advocates in briefs to black advocates in briefs to black advocates in briefs to black advocates
2020 & 2021 2022 & 2023 2020 & 2021 2022 & 2023
2022 / 2023
2020 / 2021
2020 / 2021
2022 / 2023

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