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Arusha tribunal lifts ban on French, Canadian lawyers

    NAIROBI

    ICTR registrar Dr Agwu Okali on Wednesday announced the lifting of a ban on the assignment of French and Canadian lawyers to “indigent” defendants. Okali said the ban was never meant to be permanent and had “done its job” in combating the “over-representation” of lawyers from France and Canada, both to obtain a better distribution of lawyers from different legal systems and because “a certain group of lawyers was trying to take over all the legal representation” of ICTR detainees, the Hirondelle news agency reported. Okali said he was sure the ban was grounded in law and would not open the way for any retrospective appeals, the report added.

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