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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waiganjo",
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        "legal_name": "John Muriithi Waiganjo",
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    "content": "society that stays at the pedestal. It is good that we have devolved their functions and their branches. We had their participation when we came up with this Bill. They came. It is the Council for the LSK which proposed that they be allowed to remain in their eight branches. Even as we have the 47 counties, we want to be alive to the fact that there is proposed to be a high court in every one of the 47 counties. So, the Council for the LSK must now also start thinking ahead and try to see how they can expand their branches. Therefore, this is a very timely Bill. As you know, the legal profession, not only in this country, but the world over, is important. Lawyers are important in life. You always need a lawyer, not only when you are criminal, but if you are a conveyance and you are buying property, you need a lawyer. So, we want the integrity of lawyers also to be harnessed. We want the LSK to also protect lawyers because it does not mean that litigants are very good. There are busy bodies or litigants who are petty and who will bring frivolous and vexatious matters before the disciplinary committee just to punish lawyers because they did not win their cases. It is not obvious that when you go to court, you have to win. It is also not obvious that an advocate must win your case in order for you to pay him. No, that does not happen. We also want lawyers to be protected from litigants who go to court expecting to win regardless of the rights of the others. It is an important Bill and even at your deathbed, you need two people. You need a lawyer and an insurer, just like Jesus when he died; he had two thieves on either side. So, the principal applies. I support."
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