Justice Deputy minister Todd Chilembo has urged Advocates to desist from making unwarranted attacks on the bench as they have a common cause.
He said there is need for advocates both in government and private sector to continue working together in the dispensation of justice in the country as opposed to attacking each other.
“I am aware that we are not expected to think in the same way. Indeed I am aware that we may have different opinions on a matter but this should not divide us and does not warrant attacks on each other and on the bench,” he said.
He said it was important that the government lawyers interact with their colleagues from the private sector so as to share ideas and experiences and urged the participants to practice the best practices in the legal fraternity.
“It is anticipated that when participants leave this place at the end of the workshop, they will utilize the knowledge they have acquired in the dispensation of justice. This is expected of them as officers of the court,” he said.
Mr. Chilembo said the unwarranted attacks only portrays the legal fraternity as a divided entity.He was speaking in Livingstone when he officially opened the 5th State Advocates’ Annual workshop at Chrismar Hotel, today.
The workshop that will run from 27th September to 3rd October is aimed at equipping the participants with the best practices in the legal fraternity as well as strengthening interaction and team work amongst legal practitioners.
It also aims at realizing the Ministry’s mission, facilitating the administration of justice and promoting of the observation of the rule of law in order to enhance good governance, both locally and internationally.
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The house of lawyers or is it liars is indeed DIVIDED we like it or not. The only reason why the liars are attacking each other is because they have allowed to be divided by the politicians and since they have been reduced to bootlickers, they have no option but to start washing their soiled linen in the public to win the publics sympathy, but its too late. the only solution is to purge the evil from the house by starting at the top, the chief justice must go to his farm if at all he has one, the justice minister must be independent from the veep position and the DPP must resign on moral grounds
You cant wash dirty linen in dirty water,the judicary is stinking dirty,so the prudent and most obvious thing to do is wash dirty linen in clean water,which is the public…the DPP has no single fiber of morality so he cannot resign on moral grounds SIMPLES!
Well, if his government can stop engineering absolutely ludicrous verdicts like the one they created on Chiluba Vs The People then there will be no need for the divisions in the legal fratenity. For all I can foresee, the Zambian bench is doomed and so is the entire legal fratenity. See, most of the chaps called learned lawyers today are nothing but satanic stinking thieves hiding their evil devil’s workshops behing gray wigs. No wonder Satamashimba’s head too in the years before he kicked the bucket was like theirs, wilting and gray!
WHY HIRE A THIEF LAWYER IF YOU CAN BUY A ****ING JUDGE….GROW UP AND BE WISE LIKE THE KENYANS……
people must learn to accept all decisions. If you jail a general its ok! FTJ washaout NONONO…..You f ooools
Hats off to Sangwa! he has realised that its nonsical to regard the legal profession as scred – learned jerks my foot!they hide all their wrongs,lies,deceipt,corruption,name it in the name of so called nobility of the profession,its all junk.nowonder they get filthy rich in the night even jnr.state advocates.
these chaps should be subjected to public scrutiny because they serve the same public,period! we are sick and tired of calculated verdicts – we are just a few breaths away from ‘legalizing’ mob justice on every issue,our legal system is dead, from magistrates to supreme judges…SHAME!
What do you call a hundred lawyers by the habour?
If only that will help making it clean, let them wash it not only in public, but in full view of the public!
I am with Sangwa and his willingness to challenge the status quo. But I am not for the idea that legal judgements should be based on political expediency. My point being – Chiluba went to court and was aquited, I MAY BE DISSSAPOINTED but I will not attack the Judge for coming to these decision. That is his jurisdiction. And likwise when the DPP makes a decision not to appeal , I will not join the name callers like the post who wanted to pre – determine outcomes. The DPP office is constitutional and as such ptotected so that he can carry out his responsibilities to the best of his ability without public presure… Legal decisions are not supposed to be based on public opinion but points of law.
It boils down to this simple concept – separation of powers. It is clear the Executive had influence on the Judiciary. It is all there for everybody to see. It is evident those who have chosen not to see will not see
‘points of law’ which are interpreted in the night and read-out in courts? why should the public who fund these constitutional offices watch-by as these quacks mis-apply the laws for their selfish reasons? – an uprising is in the waiting pa Zed if we are not careful.