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ROAD ACCIDENT FUND (RAF) - OFFICER: LEGAL COST VALIDATION (X4)
ROAD ACCIDENT FUND (RAF)
The Road Accident Fund's mission is to provide appropriate cover to all road users within the borders of South Africa; to rehabilitate and compensate persons injured as a result of motor vehicle accidents in a timely and caring manner; and to actively promote safe use of our roads
The Organization requires the services of qualified individuals within its East London Regional Office on a 24 Month Fixed Term Contract for the following positions:
THIS IS AN INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ADVERTISEMENT
OFFICER: LEGAL COST VALIDATION: T.A.S.K LEVEL 10 (X4)
OLCV19112021ELN
LOCATION: East London
CLOSING DATE & TIME: 11/30/2021 11:55 PM
Purpose of the Job: To validate and assess legal cost bills.
Key Performance Areas
Perform assessment of bills
- Screening and checking compliance with RAF Act, Rules of Court, SLA, and Applicable RAF Tariffs.
- Evaluation of bills of cost that are settled and or taxed.
- Assessment of Bills of Cost set down for taxation and those that are not set down.
- Assessment of Bills of Cost for block settlements.
- Prepare and make cost contributions and settle Bills of Cost.
- Evaluate assessor invoices and accounts in terms of the SLA and applicable tariff.
- Conduct research on case law and legal principles to keep abreast of developments.
- Preparation of executive summaries for legal costs as per threshold.
- Evaluate and tax Advocate's accounts in terms of SLA and applicable tariff.
- Evaluate Panel Attorney's files in terms of RAF tariff.
- Evaluate assessor invoices and accounts in terms of the SLA and applicable tariff.
- Assessment of disbursement of Experts Accounts.
- Referral of SLA breaches to panel management.
- Attend to block bookings.
Attend to Taxation of Bills of Cost
- Prepare and make offers and settle Bills of Cost
- Attendance at Magistrate's Court and Regional Court for taxations.
- Attendance at High Courts for taxations.
- Appearance before the taxing Master to argue complex legal principles governing taxations of legal costs.
- Appearance before the taxing Master and the Magistrate to argue complex legal principles governing taxations of legal costs.
- Prepare review documents for review proceedings in court
- Serve review documents to opposing party citing the basis of review.
- Attend court and appear to argue the basis of review in front of Magistrate or Judge.
- Negotiate reasonable settlements of costs.
- Request cost payment
- Recover extra costs where applicable and advise Management accordingly.
- Instruct panel attorneys to oppose and settle costs and costs applications.
- Provide advice to Legal department in respect of Litigation processes received.
- Updating the status of claims view note.
- Perform verification to ensure that the right payment is made to the correct Attorney.
- Attend to Fee analysis.
- Perform duplicate checks.
- Evaluation of bills of cost that is settled and or taxed.
- Process Bills of Cost that are settled and or taxed.
- Approve Bills of Cost that are settled and or taxed in terms of delegation of authority policy.
- Request payment on the system.
- Prepare the source documents to be forwarded to Finance department for checking and payment.
- Keep daily statistics of activities and trends on work allocated and work to be assessed.
- Submit daily and monthly statistics as required by Management.
- Keep record of statistics for performance management and review.
- Attend queries from stakeholders pertaining to Bills of cost settled and outstanding payments of accounts.
- Referral of writs reports to quality assurance.
- Prepare batch report for payment department
- Prepare and render advice to claims sections, attorneys, and cost consultants
- Instruct Panel Attorneys to attend taxations on behalf of RAF in respect of courts not falling within the proximity of offices of RAF.
- Conduct research on Case Law and legal principles to keep abreast of developments.
- Investigation, reconciliation of Writs and reporting.
- NQF 7 (Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma) in Law or related qualification.
- Admission as an Attorney would be advantageous.
- Relevant 3 years' experience in Claims or Legal Costs environment.
- Communication Skills (Written and Verbal).
- Report-writing skills.
- Computer Literacy.
- Decision making skills.
- Negotiation skills.
- Planning and organizing skills.
- Analytical thinking.
- Problem solving skills.
- Administration skills.
- Team player with tenacity to work independently.
- In-depth knowledge and thorough understanding of RAF Act.
- Attention to detail and ability to work under extreme pressure.
- Personal mastery
- Judgment and decision making
- Emotional wisdom
- Ethics and governance
- Customer orientation and customer focus
- Integrity,
- Compassion,
- Accountability,
- Respect,
- Excellence
Remuneration
Total cost to company applicable to this position is minimum R349 998.00 per annum, negotiable.
NB: "RAF offers Total Employment Cost packages with no additional contributions from the Employer, successful candidates are required to structure their packages in a manner that will suit their needs".
Closing date: 30 November 2021
Kindly Note: This is a 24 Month Fixed Term Contract.
Applications can be forwarded to the Recruitment Officer at the East London Regional Office; email address is ELNRecruitment.3@raf.co.za
No hand delivered CV's will be accepted.