10 May 2021
Partner, London
Having completed my law degree in 2001, I took a year out because I did not have the funds to pay for the Legal Practice Course. I had already incurred debt from my time at university and did not want to increase this. I worked as a paralegal; the wages were too low to save enough to enrol on the course to complete the LPC the following year.
I did not come from a privileged background. My father passed away when I was nine, and my mother, a housewife, raised six of us by herself. One day I went to my local library and consulted the charities register and noted down the names of various charitable organisations that provided educational grants. I wrote to hundreds, many of which did not respond. In the meantime, the deadline for booking a place for the LPC was looming – the fee was £8,000 and a £250 deposit was required to book a place. I paid the deposit, not knowing how I was going to obtain the remainder. However, just as buses arrive at once, I
DA chief whip Natasha Mazzone denies that she lied about her qualifications (Jan Gerber/News24)
No sources explained how Natasha Mazzone was able to balance her various occupations and political pursuits, while complying with the provisions of the Attorney s Act, writes GOOD party secretary-general
Brett Herron.
South Africans are justifiably cynical about the integrity of politicians. Far too many of them are career public representatives, unskilled in any profession or trade, unschooled in honesty, who approach politics like a game of snakes and ladders, simply competing to get to the top where the fat salaries are.
It is a game in which cheating and incompetence aren t necessarily liabilities but can instead prove richly rewarding, funded by taxpayers, of course.
2018 South Sudan v James Dak: A Case of Travesty of Justice (2018) Sudd Institute 1– 9, 1 2017 Defining the Nature and Limits of Presidential Powers in the Transitional Constitution of South Sudan: A Politically Contentious Matter for the New Nation (2017) 61 (1) Journal of African Law 23 – 39,
Share
LANRE ADEWOLE seeks all angles to the Lagos anti-graft law and the vexed issues surrounding it.
On Monday, April 19, 2021, Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwoolu, signed into law, the state anti-corruption law, joining a motley of states already operating such law through their anti-corruption commissions or agencies with little or no noise, mainly due to the non-interference of their work, with the statutory functions and responsibilities of federal government-controlled anti-graft bodies like the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, the Code of Conduct Bureau and expectedly, including the newest in sight, the Proceeds of Crime Recovery and Management Agency.
William Ouko: A down-to-earth judge who loves music, books
Friday May 07 2021
By SAM KIPLAGAT
Summary
If confirmed to join the Supreme Court, Justice William Ouko will become the first judicial officer to rise from the lower rank of a district magistrate to the country’s top court.
The 60-year-old judge, who is described by colleagues as humble and team player, joined the Judiciary in 1987 as a district magistrate II.
He then rose to the position of deputy registrar, senior deputy, principal and later the Registrar of the High Court where he served for two years before he was appointed a judge in 2004.