At least eight Malawian crooks trading as legal practitioners are facing a chop and disbarment from the legal profession over fraud and for embezzling over K128 million of clients funds including deceased estate money, the country’s Attorney General has said. Malawi’s Attorney General, who is also the government’s chief legal advisor, Dr. Chikosa Silungwe says […]
25th May 2021
Things donât look pretty for engineering students at the Gaborone University College of Law (abbreviated as âGUCâ) who are being cold-shouldered by the Engineers Registration Board (ERB). While the Botswana Qualifications Authority (BQA) has accredited the programme, the ERB has declined to register GUC-graduated engineers because the programme doesnât meet its necessarily stringent standards. The students are understandably panicked but nothing suggests that ERB will relax its standards in order to accommodate GUC graduates.
It is yet unclear how this particular case will end but the university has been down this road before.
Once before, BQA has approved an LLB programme that GUC planned to offer in the not-too-distant future. The problem though was that the programme was not on a list of universities that are recognised by the Legal Practitioners Act. In terms of Section 4 of the Act, Botswana citizens shall be qualified to practise as legal pr
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