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Council Donates Two Computers To LRF
By Madube Pasi Siyauya
The British Council has donated two more computers to the Legal Resources
Foundation (LRF) in its Africa Law Project.
According to the British Council Programme Manager Samantha Chuula their
consultants Rupert Skilbeck, Lucinda Mooreman and Herietta Hill from the
London Bar Association visited many organisations dealing in Human Rights
and Law in Zambia looking for appropriate places to build law libraries.
The libraries are computers loaded with software on recent laws and
judgements.
She said the consultants were impressed with LRF's professionalism,
efficiency and their production of a newsletter related to people issues.
They recommended that LRF receive two of the four computers to be based in
their Livingstone and Kasama offices.
This is the second phase of the British Council Africa Law project involving
eight countries in East and Central Africa.
In the first phase in Zambia, nine organisations namely Afronet, Law
Association of Zambia, Lusaka High Court, the Ndola High Court, the British
Council, LRF, the Ecumenical Foundation, Zambia Institute Of Advance Legal
Education (ZIALE) and the Unza School of Law received the law computer
libraries.
In the second phase of the project, LRF will receive two computers and the
Legal Aid Clinic for women one.
Chuula said human rights are a new area of law still being created. She said
in order for lawyers, judges and Human Rights activists to represent people
properly, the British Council saw the need to establish the libraries to
equip these people with latest law information that has been lacking in East
and Central Africa.
She said in future, the British Council is looking at training for Judges,
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