{"id":314688,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/314688/?format=json","text_counter":391,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"I am proposing that Clause 24 be deleted. The reason is that Clause 24 seeks to impose a levy on services rendered by advocates or legal education providers. This is double taxation because the State is the one educating the legal profession as a whole, and imposing that burden on a category of such profession of advocates is unfair, unprecedented and will result in the distortion of legal services."}