@article{Bonnin_2019, title={Striking a Regulatory Bargain. The Legal Profession, Associations and the State in South Africa}, volume={9}, url={https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/pp/article/view/3113}, DOI={10.7577/pp.3113}, abstractNote={<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 200%; font-family: ’Times New Roman’,serif; font-size: 12pt;">This article </span><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: 200%; font-family: ’Times New Roman’,serif; font-size: 12pt;">examines the regulation of the legal profession in South Africa from colonial times, through apartheid and into the post-apartheid period. It narrates the changing relationship between professional associations and the state, locating these events within the debates on professional self-regulation.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>Taking the view that professional self-regulation is as a result of ‘an arrangement’ between professions and the state it explores the regulatory bargain struck between associations and the state.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>The paper demonstrates that during the apartheid period the profession utilised apartheid legislation to exclude black legal professionals.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>However, in the post-apartheid period, when the state proposed legislative interventions in order to enable access to both the profession and justice, a new regulatory bargain had to be negotiated.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 200%;"><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: 200%; font-family: ’Times New Roman’,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>}, number={3}, journal={Professions and Professionalism}, author={Bonnin, Debby}, year={2019}, month={Dec.} }