Apart from a director or officer of a corporation or a member of
a partnership acting on behalf of that corporation or partnership,
the Legal Practitioners Act [Chapter 27:07] prohibits persons other
than registered legal practitioners from suing or threatening to
sue on behalf of other persons. Non- legal practitioners cannot
commence any action or suit in any court on behalf of others. The
Act does not however prohibit non-legal practitioners from
collecting debts per se on behalf of other persons for as long as
such collection does not extend to the issuing of process or of any
threats of such action against a debtor. There is no statute which
regulates the operations of such debt collectors and thus there is
no statutory body or authority that monitors their activities.
