Make legal English a priority says S. Sudan minister
October 20, 2011 (JUBA) – Donor and development partners supporting South Sudan’s judicial system should develop training modules based on the English language, Paulion Wanawila, the country’s deputy minister for justice and constitutional affairs has advised.
Wanawila made this remark during the graduation ceremony of 20 legal counsels who successfully completed 11 weeks of training in Juba, the South Sudan capital. The training was conducted by the Belgian, good governance & rule of law in post-conflict countries non-governmental organisation, RCN Justice and Democratie.
“As lawyers, you need to invest in books and develop a strong reading culture,” said Wanawila, while urging them to share skills learnt during the training with their counterparts.
Richard Odokomit Okot, RCN Justice and Democracy’s head of mission in South Sudan underscored the need to improve the country’s judicial system, and agitated for long-term training.
Christopher Laki, the director for training and research in the justice ministry also appealed to donors to focus on building the capacity of more than 410 law officers currently employed by the ministry.
“As an independent nation, we have to focus on building the capacities of our junior law officers especially in practical aspects of the law,” Laki said.
Edward Yuggu, one of the trainees, lauded the funders and organisers of the event, but said more needed to be done regarding the company laws of and property rights in South Sudan. He said criminal law procedures, law of evidence, professional ethics, and criminal procedural laws were the main issues tackled during the training.
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Antigraft
Make legal English a priority says S. Sudan minister
Poor thing, don’t you know that Arabic is one of the International languages. What about those law practictioners who had Arabic backgorund during their education? We need South Sudan to make English and arabic Languages stronger.even those who hate arabic do not know english very well. besides, we need to have arabic as a necessary language in order to deal with our norther neigbour.
Apolloos
Make legal English a priority says S. Sudan minister
Think big before you decide something,if the minister statemented this and there are Arabic schools operating in some part of the country,Is it not the government contrary to itself? We know English is the official language but we can start to change Arabic as rough as that.
Matur Jonghok
Make legal English a priority says S. Sudan minister
Arabic language is for commercial and transaction purposes but english for Administration and instruction.
The constitution of South Sudan which is the Supreme Law of the this land say so!!!!!!
Elijah B. Elkan
Make legal English a priority says S. Sudan minister
The Arabic language need to dump, because many of the south Sudanese were not accommodated by the Arabs during struggle. As a matter of facts, they would have wiped out the entire South if they could. 2.5 were killed in the south. Do I need to say more!. English must be the official language of the land in the south, and to united the citizens.
Elijah