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    "id": 847950,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Baringo North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. William Cheptumo",
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        "legal_name": "William Cheptumo Kipkiror",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I will now summarise. The other amendment, which is not of the nature of miscellaneous, was with regard to the amendment to Section 4(2) of the Kenya School of Law Act and Section (8)(1) of the Council of Legal Education Act. The gist of these amendments is the liberalisation of the Advocates Training Programme. The amendment proposes that it should not be offered exclusively by Kenya School of Law (KSL). We are dealing with a situation where we want to open the process of training lawyers to any institution that can provide that service. There is already a task force established by the Attorney-General to look into all these issues. I am happy that the Chair is a legal mind. Recently, we had cases where there was massive failure of lawyers. It affects all of us. We have friends, relatives and children. This is an area we need to comprehensively address. We cannot do so through a miscellaneous amendment. The task force should be allowed to conclude the findings. They have already interviewed various stakeholders. These are the areas we feel that the amendments are not of miscellaneous nature. We should not allow, as a House, substantive amendments in those particular laws to be undertaken. As I conclude, may I take this opportunity to express gratitude to the Committee Members for their resilience and devotion to duty, which made the review of the Bills easier. This is not just my Committee, but the other committees which did this work. I urge the Members to read the comprehensive reports in order to fully appreciate and enrich the debate when the Bill comes up for consideration in the Committee of the whole House."
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