Don’t be scandalous, be exemplary: Lawyers advised by Malawi Judge Mzikamanda
Supreme Court of Appeal Judge, Rezine Mzikamanda has asked senior lawyers in the country to be exemplary and to always avoid denting the “good image” associated with their noble profession.
Mzikamanda made the remarks Friday at Mount Soche hotel in Blantyre where the University of Malawi (Unima) with financial assistance from National Bank of Malawi (NBM) awarded 10 lawyers who have graduated with Masters Degree in Commercial Law.
Notable graduants, among the 10, included the current Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale, Wapona Kita, Ambukile Salimu and Ted Roca, among others.
“We have newcomers in the industry and it needs you to lead the way well so as for people to continue having confidence in us,” said Mzikamanda, who once served as Director of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB).
Mzikamanda, who represented Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda, also commended National Bank of Malawi for supporting the first ever masters program in commercial law which produced nine credits and one distinction through Kaphale.
And NBM Chief Executive Officer George Patridge said the country will benefit from the program as previously there has been a gap in the commercial law when it came to solving commercial disputes.
Patridge, an alumni of UNIMA himself, said his bank believes that issues of law and business are interdependent hence their intervention to sponsor the program.
“We are satisfied with the crop of the graduants and as a bank we believe that the contribution we have made will bring much needed result in the country’s trade deals,”said Patridge.
The NBM CEO also expressed optimism that Unima will continue with the program despite the pulling out of sponsorship by the bank.
On his part, UNIMA Vice Chancellor, Prof John Saka told Nyasa Times that the they have put in place measures that will see the program being sustained.
He said the Masters Degree in Commercial Law programme is well established because of NBM’s financial support, adding it will add more value to the country’ judiciary.
“Some of the sustainable measures include enrolling self sponsored students who will not need anything from the school,” said Saka.
The program which is first of its kind was sponsored to the tune of K50million.
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No.11 We chikonyofu. Mala ghako!
Kikikikikikikiki!!! Uwese lole po watuka
Yankho Msukwa, we need to know all graduates & not only the so called “notable graduants”, are you trying to gain favours from them because they are well established.
Munakawauzanso asiye kusuta chamba
I think those are wise words from Mzikamanda JA, but to the wrong crowd. These are guys who are already in practice and are among the most morally corrupt lawyers out there. So as far as those ones go, the ship has long sailed. that advice should be reserved for freshly admitted lawyers, hoping that they will be a new and different breed. otherwise, the kind of idealistic and principled lawyering that the likes of mzikamanda and co practised in their days is long gone, replaced by the crooked, greedy, thieving lawyering that has lawyers answering theft and murder charges,… Read more »
Most of them they win cases by corruption not by presenting facts. They know the right person to deal with during ur case
A Kaphale ndi Kita kutchuka konseku ndi ka Masters ka pa UNIMA pompa apa paaChikanda! Meep! simungathe kupitako ma university alumna or pa JonI pompa for exposure? Nkuona our legal system is backward. Too much Chikanda mentality
Anthutu sachita comment chifukwa Kaphale waphula degree ndi distinction. Akanakhala wa kujaku mukanamva matama ake. Amvekere mtundu wathu ndi wanzeru kuiwala kuti mbutuma zambiri zathawira kunja kumachita phokoso pa net zachokera kumeneko. Musovenge. Ndatchulako ine ngati?
Kodi Kalekeni ndi wakuti?
I would have loved if the sponsorship went to new graduants and these established lawyers could have paid for themselves! why sponsor those who can afford and not those newly graduated lawyers?
I better praise a teacher than these crooks. busy eating deceased monies, cashgate as well. By the way one of the graduates is conected to cashgate archtects. stinking lawyers, God will punish you!
We do not exemplary lawyers in Malawi, instead we have thieves, Wapona, is answering cash gate cases, today you are saying he was by the bank. It is unbelievable.