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Over 1,000 Lawyers Troop To Mombasa Regional Conference
From Left: Uganda President Yoweri Museveni, Uhuru Kenyatta (Kenya) and Paul Kagame (Rwanda)
By Harold Ayodo
Nairobi, Kenya: President Uhuru Kenyatta is expected to open the East Africa Law Society (EALS) Annual Conference in Mombasa next week.
The East Africa Law Society (EALS) President Mr. James Mwamu said President Kenyatta has been invited to address over 1,000 lawyers from the region on November 15 in Mombasa.
"We (EALS) have invited President Kenyatta to open the EALS Annual Conference with the agenda of analyzing prevailing economic and legal developments within East Africa (EA)," Mr. Mwamu said.
The EALS President said that lawyers are determined to ensure that the East African Community (EAC) turns around lives in the region.
"The EAC has the potential of transforming the region into an economic power house in the continent," Mr. Mwamu said.
The lawyers from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi will troop to The Sarova Whitesands Hotel for the 18thEALS Annual Conference and General Meeting on November 15th and 16th, 2013.
The conference will also feature invited legal experts and researchers from the Southern African Development Corporation Law Association (SADC LA), and West African Bar Association (WABA).
The theme of the multi-national lawyers' conference is Raising the Bar: The changing environment for the Legal Profession in East Africa.
"The legal world is changing. Lawyers are being confronted with new challenges in the ever changing technological world," Mr. Mwamu said.
Research shows that 70 per cent of legal fees in Africa remain in the hands of offshore Law firms based in Washington, London and New York.
"We need to reverse the trend and our lawyers need to learn how to do business in the globalised world," Mr. Mwamu said.
The EALS President said the conference will also deliberate on media freedom following the sweeping wave of oppressive media laws in the region.
"Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and Somalia have adopted a pattern of media suppression by using unconstitutional laws to gag journalists the media," Mr. Mwamu said.
The EALS is the premier regional Bar Association of East Africa that brings together the national Law Societies of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanganyika and Zanzibar.
It has over 10,000 individual lawyers as its members and strives to enhance the rule of law, human rights and good governance with a view to promoting sustainable social and economic development.
-Harold Ayodo, LSK Programme Officer (Communications)
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