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New lawyers vow to raise legal standards

KIMIHURURA - Eighty new lawyers who were admitted yesterday to the Kigali Bar Association have affirmed their determination to increase the population’s access to justice in all provinces of the country.The advocates who took oath before a panel of High Court judges at the Supreme Court in Kimihurura brought the total number of practicing lawyers in the country to 450.Clement Nkeza, one of the lawyers said that as Rwanda’s judicial system grows, it needed more professional lawyers to fill huge gap.“
Some of the new lawyers being sworn-in yesterday (Photo F. Goodman)
Some of the new lawyers being sworn-in yesterday (Photo F. Goodman)
Times Reporter