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    "id": 587194,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/587194/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "It is also interesting to note that, all this time, when it comes to matters of contempt, we have been relying to the English Contempt Law. This provision is probably more than 50 years and it is overdue. It is good that we now have clear provisions in Section X about the situations and circumstances that amount to contempt of court, and the fact that the Magistrates’ Courts will now be able to deal with those issues in the administration of justice. Their inability to deal with issues of contempt have almost led to some form of--- I do not want to use the words “disrespect” or “disdain” on the part of either lawyers and magistrates because they know that there is only so much that the magistrates are able to do even when those lawyers or whoever it may be is in contempt of court. So, any person who may threaten, intimidate or willfully insult a magistrate, a judicial officer or a witness involved in a case in a Magistrates’ Court can be punished by the magistrate for contempt of court. The magistrates must be held in high esteem. We must respect the courts. There are even those who disobey court orders and directions of a Magistrates’ Court in the course of hearing the proceedings. There have been numerous cases where the Magistrates’ Courts have not been taken either seriously or with the importance that they deserve just because of their inability to deal with matters of contempt."
}