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    "id": 1041872,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1041872/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
        "slug": "moses-wetangula"
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, ordinarily and in good practice, counsel for both parties exchange documents, including but not limited to authorities. This is what they should have done. Being where we are and determining a matter of this weight, good practice would enjoin us through you, Madam Deputy Speaker, to allow the two authorities that the lawyer wants to cite. This is on the understanding that fairness requires that you will give counsel for the Assembly an opportunity to comment on them after they have been cited and quoted to support the case for the Governor. However, the counsel should have known that these are part of documents they ought to have exchanged and filed with the Senate in the course of or at the beginning of the proceedings. Madam Deputy Speaker, lastly, it is a matter that we encourage you to bend backwards and accommodate a man whose life in politics is on the line. Give an opportunity for the lawyers on the other side to comment. It is good practice. We do not need to waste a lot of time on this; exercise your discretion. Bend towards justice and let us move on."
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