FECKLESS LAZWE are shocked by the very wrong and misguided claim by the Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) that it would be illegal to advertise the vacant position of Chief Justice.There is no law that proscribes a procedure that introduces transparency and probity in the recruitment of high judicial office.This misguided interpretation actually betrays the feckless character of this association which has never been proactive.We note that LAZ has in the past failed to live up to the expectations of the public by remaining quiet on matters that warrant its intervention and only reacting nonchalantly long after events.Zambians have not forgotten how LAZ kept quiet when the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land abrogated basic natural law by refusing to accord second Republican President Frederick Chiluba an opportunity to be heard before his immunity was removed.The same LAZ remained mute when the Government of President Levy Mwanawasa instituted the infamous, illegal and abnoxious Task Force on Corruption, whose cases are […]
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