Fri, 03 Mar 2017 10:41:14 +0000 …Lusaka lawyer says current LAZ leadership uninspiring By CHARLES MUSONDA THE Linda Kasonde-led Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) leadership is uninspiring because it is clearly peddling sectional interests of the ‘‘cartel’’ and the opposition on issues of national interest, a senior lawyer has protested. The lawyer, Hobday Kabwe, has demanded that LAZ gives solid compelling grounds for engaging counsels to defend Nchima Nchito in his impersonation case because the association chose to remain mute when the Lovemore Chikopa tribunal was instituted to probe judges Charles Kajimanga and Nigel Mutuna over alleged professional misconduct. He said LAZ was expected to be impartial and to defend any member of the legal fraternity who came under attack. “There is already an existing precedent in the case of Judge Kajimanga and Judge Mutuna where the Law Association of Zambia took a rather lukewarm stance by not joining to defend these constitutional office […]
