Africa-Press – Lesotho. Advocate Sehapi is either excitable or takes himself too seriously. This week he dragged a sara-sara of legal gibberish to the High Court. He is arguing that the mandatory 15 years is too long for him to wait before he can be a King’s Counsel.
He argues that the chief justice should not be the one to recommend who the King should make a King’s Counsel. That, he says, should be the responsibility of the Law Society Council.
He may be on to something about the law society having a say on who should be King’s Counsel. But Muckraker will tell you today that if the Law Society is given that responsibility no lawyer in this country will ever be a King’s Counsel.
They will argue for months and sue each other blind. It is a notorious fact that Lesotho’s lawyers are factional animals. They cannot even agree on whether Lesotho Avani is on top of Mpilo or Mpilo is on top of Lesotho Avani.
So Advocate Sehapi should be careful what he wishes for. But that is not the point Muckraker wants to make. The issue here is Advocate Sehapi’s taking himself too seriously.
Can you believe that Sehapi, yes that one, wants to be King’s Counsel like Advocate Molefi Ntlhoki or Advocate Zwake Mda. Khele! Advocate Molefi Ntlhoki was the attorney general of Lesotho before Sehapi was even an idea or a spirit.
But let’s assume that Sehapi is some brilliant legal mind that should not be allowed to wait in the long queue to become King’s Counsel. Muckraker is still waiting for one spectacular case that he handled.
We are talking about a case he won because victory is not necessarily the measure of legal acumen. Sometimes a lawyer can lose a case but after advancing arguments that make judges nod in approval.
Given what she has seen and heard, Muckraker will not hire him to represent her in a parking slot dispute at a bar. Never! Not even at Sparrows. It is not that Muckraker is contemptuous of the young lawyer.
It’s just that she was spooked by one particular legal opinion that emitted some several moons ago. It was something to do with mandatory Covid-19 vaccines.
Boy it was a dog’s breakfast of a legal opinion. Never in the history of this noble profession has paper and ink met to sire such crap in the name of legal point of view.
The opinion went round in circles until it morphed into a religious sermon. Sehapi said vaccines were a mark of the beast. He was referring to the nonsense about 666, an inane idea peddled by shallow minds that read the Bible literally. The problem is not his opinion but calling it a legal opinion. Someone pass Muckraker a hankie!
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