Times Of Swaziland: INTENDS MEETING CJ, DPP, SENIOR LAW FIRMS

INTENDS MEETING CJ, DPP, SENIOR LAW FIRMS
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Sabelo Majola on 04/08/2024 18:24:00


MBABANE - The Federation of Eswatini Business Community (FESBC) intends meeting
the chief justice, director public prosecutor and senior law firms, to inform
their research.
This was relayed by FESBC Head of Business Transformation Mavela Sigwane last
Friday.He said that the law firms they intend to see are SV Mdladla and
Associates, Robinson Bertram law firm and Magagula SC Hlophe Attorneys, because
of their seniority and experience. Among the things that the FESBC research
seeks to determine is clarity on the process afforded to the business person in
litigation for a fair hearing, before any court order is issued, as mentioned by
Sigwane. It is also to seek clarity on the fair representation of the business
person in any legal matter, before it can be concluded, as most have all along
been concluded without any hearing, or seating of all parties, etc.
Matters
“It has been a paper stamping exercise and sheriff-field day on business
people, and the process of validating the fitness of a seating judge in matters
relating to business people litigation and related matters.” Sigwane said they
intend concluding the research at least by August 15 and then share it to its
members and other stakeholders. Below are some of the clarities that the
research seek to determine: The relationship of the financial sector, lawyers,
sheriffs and the courts towards continuous litigation of businesspeople in the
country, using the High Court stamped bulky documents, which are not easy to
understand from a businessperson perspective.
The process of how does an attorney or lawyer or the law firm makes its money to
justify the wealth we are seeing in most of the lawyers in the country. The role
of managing the various legal instruments established by the country, which has
since been mainly used to toucher business people in the various sectors of the
economy.