Law Society to report Dibotelo
Wednesday, December 07, 2016
Dibotelo
This follows a recent discovery of the final audit report of the Administration of Justice (AoJ) on housing allowance for High Court judges. “…The society is determined that the Chief Justice was acting selectively, and most likely, maliciously when he reported the four judges to the JSC and later to the police.
“The society resolved to lodge a complaint against the Chief Justice with the JSC. The complaint shall be lodged in due course,” the outgoing LSB chairperson Lawrence Lecha said in his annual report.
That a single private law firm pocketed P6.5 million for just four cases, out of a total P11.1 million paid for 25 matters, reeks of a system that was not merely disorganised but open to abuse.Bayford has taken a welcome first step by telling the Public Accounts Committee the truth. Now he must act decisively to ensure it never happens again and that any money lost to wrongdoing is recovered.The figures are staggering. Whilst ordinary Batswana...