ໜ້າຫຼັກ | News & Events | United States Supports Lao Bar Association to Open Legal Aid Clinic in Vientiane Province
VIENTIANE, LAO PDR Continuing the United States’ ongoing support the Lao government’s objective of making the Lao PDR a rule of law state, the Lao Bar Association opened the first Legal Aid Clinic, supported by the United States, during a ceremony at the Vientiane Province Lao Bar Association Office. Minister of Justice Xaysi Santivong and Vice Governor of Vientiane Province Bounsone Phetlavan joined U.S. Ambassador Peter M. Haymond for the ceremony, which was attended by more than 80 representatives from the Lao Bar Association, along with officials of the Ministry of Justice, lawyers, and development partners.
Judiciary Spokesperson Slavain Kalumba confirmed the demise of Justice Muyovwe.
Her father was the late Mainza Chona (1930 to 2001), one-time Vice President of the Republic of Zambia (1970 to 1973).
In 1979, she graduated from the University of Zambia, School of Law, with a Bachelor of Laws.
She was admitted to Zambia Bar in 1981.
She worked for the Zambian Ministry of Legal Affairs, as a State Attorney and as an Assistant Senior Legal Aid Counsel.
She then was hired by Lima Bank Limited, as a Senior Legal Officer, serving there from 1988 until 1991.
She concurrently served as a part-time research associate for “Women and Law in Southern Africa”, between 1989 and 1993.
Former LATT president: Too many lawyers in TT
The Hall of Justice in Port of Spain. - JEFF K MAYERS
Former president of the Law association of TT (LATT) Seenath Jairam, SC, says, for a small society with an approximate 1.4 million people, TT is producing far too many lawyers.
Speaking to Newsday on Sunday, Jairam said more than 300 lawyers were approved by the association each year and thus the country was saturated with attorneys, some of whom could not find work.
Jairam made the comment in response to a Saturday Newsday lead story that said lawyers were driving taxis to make ends meet.
LAWYERS DRIVING TAXIS
Hazel
Thompson-Ahye -
SOME qualified attorneys-at-law are struggling to make ends meet and some are even working as taxi drivers, a parliamentary committee heard on Friday, against concerns that legal posts in the government remain unfilled. The revelation came from attorney Hazel Thompson-Ahye, who was chairing a sitting of the Joint Select Committee (JSC) on Finance and Legal Affairs examining public officials on the subject of the ease of doing business in Trinidad and Tobago.
Thompson-Ahye has been director of the Legal Aid Clinic at Hugh Wooding Law School and a board member of the Legal Aid and Advisory Authority, Police Complaints Authority and St Dominic’s Children’s Home.
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