{"id":33191,"date":"2017-03-14T13:26:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T13:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/multi-sector-lawyers-discouraged-in-new-bill\/"},"modified":"2017-03-15T12:24:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T12:24:54","slug":"multi-sector-lawyers-discouraged-in-new-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/multi-sector-lawyers-discouraged-in-new-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-sector lawyers discouraged in new bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The Minister of State for Constitutional and Legal Affairs in the Ministry of Justice, Evode Uwizeyimana has said that there is a need for advocates to improve  performance and act more professional in different areas of  specialization.  } <\/p>\n<p>The Minister noted this yesterday as he presented a draft bill spelling out guidelines on  legal assistance in Rwanda to parliament  yesterday following various cases where clients would reject  assigned advocates. The Parliamentarians approved the draft law.  <\/p>\n<p> He said the bill emphasizes the need for specialization in different areas of Law, as the current situation was not defined, explaining that it is improper for one person to serve as an advocate for genocide related court case in the morning, defend land related court case at noon and represent another in a commercial court case in the evening. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should be distinguishing professionalism from seeking means of survival.  If a person can be an advocate in a land case in the morning, divorce at noon, genocide case next day and tax cases \u2026We have to analyze this because laws have various categories,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>He explained that the law will not instantly and totally eradicate the matter but will discuss with members of the bar association to address the challenge.  <\/p>\n<p>Competencies will be assessed on the basis of court cases the advocate defended and or diplomas ranging from Masters among other criteria. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18741 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/c6zrkhbwsaak2zf-dddd8.jpg\" alt=\"The Minister of State for Constitutional and Legal Affairs in the Ministry of Justice, Evode Uwizeyimana.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Minister of State for Constitutional and Legal Affairs in the Ministry of Justice, Evode Uwizeyimana has said that there is a need for advocates to improve performance and act more professional in different areas of specialization. } The Minister noted this yesterday as he presented a draft bill spelling out guidelines on legal assistance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-33191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33191"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=33191"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=33191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}