Hancox is new LAC director

By: STAFF REPORTER

THE Legal Assistance Centre has appointed Toni Hancox as its new director after an extensive recruitment process which started in September last year.

Hancox has been with the Legal Assistance Centre since 2000.
She obtained her law degrees, which she studied on a part-time basis through the University of South Africa, while working as a secretary at PF Koep Attorneys in 1996.
She then joined the Government Attorneys and thereafter was admitted as a lawyer in the United Kingdom in 1999. She returned to Namibia in 2000 when she was appointed as a lawyer at the LAC.
Hancox is currently also serving on the Council of the Law Society of Namibia and of the Commonwealth Lawyers’ Association.
The current LAC Director, Norman Tjombe, will step down at the end of February to start a private law firm.
Tjombe, who has been with the LAC since November 1991 in various capacities starting as a driver, paralegal, student intern, lawyer, manager and then appointed as the Director in May 2004, has now been appointed to the Board of the LAC as from March 1.
He studied law at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa with a scholarship from the Legal Assistance Centre.
The announcement was made by Advocate Dave Smuts, chairperson of the LAC board.