{"id":46970,"date":"2019-05-28T14:15:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T12:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistsouthafrica.com\/?p=46970"},"modified":"2019-05-28T14:15:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T12:15:28","slug":"the-socio-economic-rights-institute-of-south-africa-seri-job-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistsouthafrica.com\/the-socio-economic-rights-institute-of-south-africa-seri-job-opening.html","title":{"rendered":"The Socio-Economic Rights Institute Of South Africa (SERI) Job Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) Law Clinic seeks the services of an admitted attorney, to be appointed either as an\u00a0Attorney\u00a0or as a\u00a0Senior Attorney. An attorney with at least three years\u2019 post-admission experience and a higher appearance right qualifies for the post of\u00a0Senior Attorney. An attorney with less than three years\u2019 experience qualifies for the post of\u00a0Attorney.<\/p>\n

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Job Title: Senior Attorney \/ Attorney<\/strong><\/p>\n

Job Location:\u00a0<\/strong>South Africa<\/p>\n

The Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) Law Clinic seeks the services of an admitted attorney, to be appointed either as an\u00a0Attorney\u00a0or as a\u00a0Senior Attorney. An attorney with at least three years\u2019 post-admission experience and a higher appearance right qualifies for the post of\u00a0Senior Attorney. An attorney with less than three years\u2019 experience qualifies for the post of\u00a0Attorney.<\/p>\n

The SERI Law Clinic has a first-rate human rights practice, which encompasses constitutional and administrative law, criminal defence, defamation, labour law, property law, contract law (insofar as it involves consumer protection) and actions against the police and other delictual claims. SERI concentrates its work in South Africa\u2019s townships, informal settlements, the Johannesburg inner city and other poor and marginalised communities. SERI\u2019s practitioners appear regularly at all levels of the courts system, up to and including the Constitutional Court. SERI has an enviable track record in obtaining and enforcing ground-breaking judgments. You can find out more about SERI on\u00a0www.seri-sa.org<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0www.fightingforaliving.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reporting to the Director of Litigation, the\u00a0Attorney\u00a0will be expected to develop a litigation practice across a wide range of work, encompassing trial, motion and appeal work, including criminal, constitutional, administrative, labour, property and delictual matters. The\u00a0Senior Attorney\u00a0will, in addition, be expected to mentor, train and act as principal to one or more of SERI\u2019s candidate attorneys, to deputise for the Director of Litigation where necessary, and to share with the Director of Litigation the responsibility of managing SERI\u2019s caseload and its team of attorneys and candidate attorneys.<\/p>\n

The requirements for the position are as follows –<\/strong><\/p>\n

For Attorneys<\/p>\n