Lawyers
defy name change threat - 2 December
A row is brewing between the Law Society of the Northern
Provinces and law firm Routledge Modise over the firm's decision
to practise under the name Eversheds. The firm changed its
"practice style" - the equivalent of a trading name -
in July after it became a member of Eversheds International last
year. Eversheds International is one of the biggest law firms in
the world, with 47 offices in 27 countries. But the law society
says practising under the name is a breach of its rules, which
require practitioners to practise under their own names or the
names of former partners. The firm has refused to stop using the
name, despite the law society saying it will go to court for an
interdict. Eversheds, in turn, has complained to the Competition
Commission, saying the rule is anti- competitive. - Business
Day website
Attorney
jailed for trust fund theft - 27 November
A former attorney, who fled to the UK after stealing trust funds
belonging to clients in disadvantaged communities, was sentenced
to 10 months by the Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court
on Friday. Carl John Botman appeared before Magistrate Amrith
Chabillal, who said he had betrayed the trust of entire
communities, and sentenced him for one count of theft and 50
counts of fraud. Botman's sentence comes after he stole cash
from 600 clients, who were allocated low quality homes by the
Cape Town Community Housing Company (CTCHC) and had asked for
his assistance. - Business
Report website
Attorney
kills client - 4 December
Earlier today a well known Bedfordview attorney allegedly shot
dead the 50-year-old private investigator Kevin Trytsman whom he
was consulting with at the time. The incident took place at the
offices of attorney George Michaeledi in the Bedford Centre
office towers in Bedfordview east of Johannesburg. Apparently a
meeting had been scheduled to go through a contract but
escalated into a fatal shooting wherein two shots were fired.
Kevin Trytsman, is according to reports a well known but highly
controversial figure with links to the intelligence community.
According to Eyewitness News,he has links to the ANC's
intelligence community as well as the former police unit, the
Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB), whose members were linked to
several apartheid era murders. - The
Richmark Sentinel website
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lawyer nabbed after fatal office shooting - 5 December
A well-known Joburg attorney will spend the weekend in jail
after allegedly fatally shooting a former client. Kevin
Trytsman, a 50-year-old private investigator, died after he was
shot twice in the chest at the attorney's eighth-floor office at
the Bedford Centre in Bedfordview. The attorney will appear in
the Germiston Magistrate's Court on Monday. - IOL
website
Private
detective Kevin Trytsman shot dead, Bedfordview - 5 December
Private detective Kevin Trytsman, who once worked directly for
ex-pres Thabo Mbeki, received amnesty from the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission after testifying he'd had access to a
secret arms-cache as an Umkhonto-we-Sizwe cadre, and had links
with two members of the apartheid-era death squad CCB, was shot
dead with two gunshots in an attorney's office in Bedfordview
yesterday. Picture by Wolfram Zwecker, Beeld journalist :
the body of Kevin Trytsman is carried from attorney George
Michaelides’ office in Bedfordview. - censorbugbear
blog
Attorney
in court for murder of investigator - 6 December
A Bedfordview attorney who has represented clients for 20 years,
appears in the Germiston Magistrate's Court today as a murder
accused. The attorney has been in custody since Friday after
private investigator Kevin Trytsman, 50, died in the attorney's
eighth floor Bedfordview law office after being shot twice in
the chest with a licensed firearm. The dispute, which started in
a coffee shop on Thursday, involved a R36-million contract and
Trytsman allegedly demanded his legal files as he wanted a
change of legal representation. - Citizen
website
Gunned
down over R36m deal - 6 December
Businessman Kevin Trytsman was allegedly killed by his lawyer on
Friday over a R36m contract, Sunday World can exclusively
reveal.
Sources close to the high profile case said yesterday that the
fight between Trytsman and his lawyer, who cannot be named until
he appears in court, started at a coffee shop at Bedford Centre
in Jozi on Thursday, over a R4m cheque.
The source says : "It is not yet clear whose cheque it was".
Trytsman was allegedly escorted out of the building by two
security guards working for the lawyer. On Friday morning, at
about 7am, Trytsman arrived at the lawyer's office accompanied
by a friend and demanded all his files as he wanted to change
lawyers. - Sunday World
website