Services that will help you deal with all your legal issues in Zambia. Legal services include providing legal advice, settling terms of a purchase of a business, tax or estate planning that includes the provision of legal advice, acting as counsel or advocate to a party in a court proceeding. Legal practitioners are a unique pedigree of socially conscious legal professionals, who in their everyday work, defend and protect the rights of all seeking advice and representation including women, children, the elderly landless by providing legal advice and representation in criminal and civil matters, will and estate dispute, property matters, and family matters like divorce, child care and domestic abuse.
A legal practitioner is called by the following names - legal adviser, attorney, solicitor, counsel, advocate, barrister, counsellor, legal representative. Prosecution and defence lawyers are expected to deliver closing arguments.
The rules of professional conduct for legal practitioners require that lawyers owe a duty to their client, the court and the state. In summary, the duty of a lawyer is to: Uphold and observe the rule of law. Promote and foster the cause of justice.