All parliamentary appearances
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30 May 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that The Legal Education Bill, Bill No.63 of 2011, be read a Second Time.
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30 May 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Bill on legal education seeks to separate the Council of Legal Education (CLE) from the Kenya School of Law. The Bill seeks to give new statutory powers to the CLE and create a body that is legally competent and financially viable, with full regulatory and oversight mandate – powers and functions over all aspects of legal education and training in Kenya. These include paralegal training, university legal training, post-university professional training, and continuing legal education. This will go a long way in equipping our trainees in law with proper knowledge. It will also provide policy direction ...
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30 May 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, the major highlights of this Bill include, firstly, to supervise and control legal education and training; and, secondly, to advise the Government on matters relating to legal education and training. As we said while moving The Kenya School of Law Bill, there has been a proliferation of institutions training people in legal education. We need a regulatory body to regulate and set standards in legal training, and carry out a supervisory role.
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30 May 2012 in National Assembly:
This is the role that the CLE is going to be playing. The Council shall be responsible for setting and enforcing standards of legal education in the country in areas such as the recognition and licensing of legal education providers; accreditation of legal education providers, and the harmonisation of legal education programmes, amongst other functions.
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30 May 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, the CLE shall, in consultation with the Commission for Higher Education (CHE), make regulations for persons seeking to enrol in legal education. Those programmes will then be controlled, regularised and standardised. The CLE will also establish criteria and mechanisms for monitoring and valuation of foreign institutions offering legal education. Apart from setting standards, the CLE will also ensure that all those who have trained outside Kenya are also evaluated to ensure that foreign legal institutions do not give us half-baked lawyers. Those lawyers who come from foreign institutions can only come to our law schools through a ...
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29 May 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will have the Minister deliver this Statement by Tuesday. We can just give him Thursday to prepare and then he can deliver it on Tuesday.
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29 May 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will relay that request to hon. Saitoti and perhaps ask him to deliver it by Thursday net week.
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29 May 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I beg to move that the Committee doth report to the House its consideration of the Judicature (Amendment) Bill, Bill No.60 of 2011 and its approval thereof without amendments.
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29 May 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that the House doth agree with the Committee in the said Report.
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29 May 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that the Judicature (Amendment) Bill, Bill No.60 of 2011 be now read a Third Time.
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