NI: Belfast solicitor Brian Speers urges Kenyan lawyers to learn from Brexit
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Belfast solicitor Brian Speers, president of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA), has urged Kenyan lawyers to learn from Brexit as the African country considers constitutional reform.
The managing partner of CMG Cunningham Dickey Solicitors, who was elected to head the association in April, made the remarks in his address to the Law Society of Kenya’s annual general meeting in Mombasa.
He said lawyers should help Kenyans realise a constitution that will ensure a participatory and all-inclusive system of governance, Kenyan newspaper The Standard reports.
Mr Speers said: “Through our work as lawyers, we can positively change the lives of our fellow citizens and ourselves by ensuring we stand on the side of fairness, transparency freedom and justice. We must stand against tyranny, arbitrary power and corruption.”
He warned that “the experience of the UK following the referendum on membership of European Union 2016 illustrates the importance of clarity in the process of constitutional change”.
The Law Society of Kenya has already submitted its own views to the taskforce considering constitutional reform, but is collecting further views from members.
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