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    "id": 291992,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Githae",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Finance",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 159,
        "legal_name": "Robinson Njeru Githae",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to second this very important Bill. It has been very ably explained by the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs that what this Bill is basically doing is separating the KSL from the Council for Legal Education, so that the later can act as regulator and as a body that will impose certain standards. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what is now happening is that every college is opening a Faculty of Law yet nobody has inspected their facilities or looked at their academic staff. So, we do not know what kinds of lawyers are being trained by those institutions. The enactment of this law will enable the Council to set standards. Before universities open Faculties of Law, they will need approval from the Council. Having said so, it is also important to say that we require even more people to be trained as lawyers in this country, so that we can get the lawyer/population ratio that has been recommended by the United Nations. So, we still require more lawyers to be trained, but we require lawyers who are competent and can be able to represent their clients properly. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me also take this opportunity to ask the Judiciary to simplify some of their procedures particularly the Supreme Court. I think they have unnecessarily been made rigid and complicated. Let every lawyer even if it is a lawyer of two years standing, if he has the opportunity, represent his client in the Supreme Court. That way, we will be able to train even better lawyers. Since this is a straightforward Bill, with those few words, I beg to second."
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