Mon, 03 Apr 2017 11:00:36 +0000 THE astronomical scale at which lawyers’ legal fees have been increased by the beleaguered Law Association of Zambia (LAZ), in some cases by 500 percent, is the worst case of ‘’injustice for sale’’ ever heard of in the Zambian justice system. How possible that a State Counsel’s legal fees have risen from K750 per hour to an incredible K6,000 per hour! The fees for the green horn lawyer who has served less than five years will now jump from K300 per hour to K1,400. Just who sat down to work out these figures and had the audacity to submit them to the Chief Justice for enactment as a Statutory Instrument? No doubt Zambians will today wake up to a rude shock to discover that the new Legal Practitioners (Costs) Order or legal fees have effectively rendered them legal destitutes in their own country. Only the super rich will henceforth […]
