Webber Wentzel says it has launched Webber Wentzel Alert, an online tool designed to trigger a co-ordinated legal emergency response at the click of a button in the event of a search and seizure by the police and\/or other regulatory authorities\u00a0 – commonly known as a dawn raid.<\/p>\n
Webber Wentzel Alert enables organisations to notify a pre-identified group of key individuals within their businesses and their pre-selected legal team at the legal firm that a dawn raid is in progress.<\/p>\n
Apart from saving valuable time, it also provides easy online access to best practice guidance on their rights and obligations during the raid, enabling an informed, co-ordinated and internally aligned response, it said.<\/p>\n
“Dawn raids are an increasingly frequent reality in South Africa and this user-friendly application removes a lot of frustration and uncertainty from the process when the rapid mobilisation of the right leadership and expert teams is critical – often in very difficult circumstances,” said Christo Els, a senior partner at Webber Wentzel.<\/p>\n
“Our end-to-end approach recognises and addresses the increasingly complex regulatory compliance challenges that are faced by most large organisations,” he said.<\/p>\n
The alert feature is a web-based application and simply requires internet connectivity for users to trigger the alert and receive alert notifications. The tool is available 24\/7.<\/p>\n
Different individuals can be set up to receive notifications for each location at which an organisation conducts operations and the alert will also identify which location triggered the alert.<\/p>\n