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Kenya;
Advocates Told to Act as Agents of Change

BYLINE: The Nation

LENGTH: 305 words

The legal profession should lead in the war against poverty, environmental destruction, ethnic clashes and the HIV and Aids pandemic, President of the Commonwealth Law Association has said.

Mr Graeme Mew told chief justices, judges and lawyers that they should not restrict their work to democracy and the rule of law, which he complained, was equally under threat even in democracies like the United Kingdom.

"Poverty, destruction of environment, ethnic cleansing, Aids pandemic are all human rights issues that ultimately bear on whether we can create and maintain a just and fair global community," he said.

Mr Mew said yesterday that interference with the independence of the judiciary takes place even in Western countries such as the United Kingdom.

Interference, he said, was not just a preserve of non-democratic states such as Zimbabwe, Fiji and Pakistan.

Undue interference

Mr Mew said in mature democracies like the UK, ability of the legal profession to govern itself free of undue interference from the government has been undermined by certain aspects of the Legal Services Bill.

"One can only imagine what sort of an example for greater interference with the independence of the legal profession is being set for governments in less robust democracies than the UK to follow," Mr Mew said.

The CLA President told Commonwealth lawyers to be a force for good and justice in their respective societies and asked them to be agents of change.

He praised lawyers in countries like Fiji, Pakistan and Zimbabwe, where the independence of the judiciary and legal profession operate under a greater threat, for being brave and maintaining visible stands on the preservation of the rule of law.

He spoke at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre, Nairobi during the opening of the Commonwealth Law Association 15th annual conference.

LOAD-DATE: September 11, 2007

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

PUBLICATION-TYPE: Newsletter

Copyright 2007 AllAfrica, Inc.

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