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The High Courts in both Pretoria and Johannesburg will this week hold ceremonial sittings to commemorate the centenary of the Women Legal Practice Act of 1923.“Prior to the Act the courts had ruled, in Schlesin v Incorporated Law Society 1909 TS 363 a...