Tue, 04 Apr 2017 09:53:58 +0000 By MUKOSELA KASALWE THE Law Association of Zambia must revisit the new legal fees to make them affordable as the existing fees have already contributed to severe congestion in correctional facilities as many Zambians already cannot afford legal representation, says Prisons Care and Counselling Association executive director Godfrey Malembeka. Any increase in fees, he said, however small was unacceptable because many Zambians were already failing to meet the existing fees. Dr Malembeka said that he was worried that the legal fees, which have gone up by 500 percent in some cases, would cause mayhem in remand prisons because the situation was already dire as most citizens could hardly afford legal representation, hence languishing for many years in remand before they could appear in court. In an interview yesterday, Dr Malembeka called on Government to intervene in the matter and for LAZ to revisit their decision, saying henceforth […]
