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*Lawyers Increase Legal Fees By More Than 100 Per Cent*

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The Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) has approved the hiking of legal fees by lawyers across the board.

The move is a reaction to the depreciation in the value of the Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) Dollar. A notice released by LSZ read in part:

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> Legal practitioners are professionally and legally obliged to charge fees for legal work which are fair and reasonable in all circumstances.

> In order to assist the profession and the public in this regard and to seek a degree of uniformity and consistency, this tariff is recommended by the LSZ.

Valentine Mutatu, a law lecturer and human rights defender said:

> You will notice that for senior lawyers, they used to charge US$300 (per hour) and the latest tariff shows they can now charge RTGS$1 200.

> If you change that at the prevailing black market rate of today, which is around $420 for a US$$100 bill, it’s slightly lower than what we used to charge.

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