A VETERAN lawyer, Chris Brandt, died at his house in Windhoek this morning.
Brandt is suspected to have ended his own life by shooting himself. He was 67 years old.
Having been a practising lawyer in Namibia for more than 40 years – he was admitted as an attorney in the High Court in May 1978 – Brandt was one of the country’s most senior legal practitioners.
He spent the first 20 years of his legal career in government service, and was appointed as Namibia’s first government attorney following independence in 1990. He served in that post for more than eight years before going into private practice as Chris Brandt Attorneys, in late 1998.
Brandt was due to be the respondent in an urgent application that was scheduled to be heard in the Windhoek High Court this morning. In the application, the Law Society of Namibia was requesting the court to order Brandt’s temporary suspension from practicing law.
The application was prompted by irregularities in a trust account in which Brandt kept money on behalf of clients of his practice.
* Get a detailed report in the next edition of The Namibian.
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