ABSTRACT
This chapter canvasses new ways of applying the law, lawyering and legal education, which have at their heart effective communication, holistic client care and interpersonal and collaboration skills. Client-centred lawyering relates to empowerment, as it creates a space for clients to tell their story in their own words, articulates their concerns and involves the client in decision-making alongside the lawyer who can bring their legal expertise into the equation. A hierarchical/traditional model of lawyering situates the lawyer in control and the key determiner of how the client should act. This can be a default setting of lawyers. Perhaps because of their doctrinal training and established/traditional modes of practice are hard to shift. Narrow gene pools of those who constitute the judiciary, and legislature who make our laws, does not preclude them from being influenced and informed by their worldview.
