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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other issue of concern to me is that I am very happy that this Bill provides for paralegal personnel. But in the same spirit of providing for paralegals, I think we need to provide a standard. Over the years, I have trained paralegal personnel. One of the things that we are doing is to work towards standardizing the profession so that not everybody just wakes up and says that he is a paralegal. One needs to have gone through some uniform and standardized training to qualify even to support a lawyer as a paralegal. The way we have left it here, it defines a paralegal as a person who gives lawyers support services. A person who sweeps my office may be giving me support services. That does not qualify you as a paralegal. We need to look into that. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would like to say that I am very happy that we provided issues on cross-border legal practice. I know there is a Bill that is coming here that is trying to cushion hon. Members so that when we leave, we are able to be accommodated. I know that it has elicited a lot of reactions from the public which are not positive. But the reality is that a lot of times, when our hon. Members leave this august House, they are not employable because people do not want to touch politicians with a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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