Legal profession in disarray

It seems the suffering of people whose rights have been violated will continue unabated because lawyers appear to be no longer interested in assisting them.

- Masoka Dube

I have written many stories about people who approached lawyers to report civil cases, hoping they would assist them to find justice, but to no avail.

I am talking about medical negligence victims, train accident victims, victims of illegal arrests and people whose children were injured due to the negligence of schools.

As I called some of the victims one by one recently, I got the shock of my life when I found that almost all of them did not get help from the lawyers.

Instead, the lawyers reportedly turned against them, while some paid lawyers who did not even make an effort to assist.

Some complained that after they handed over documents relating to their cases, the lawyers stopped communicating or became rude.

Most of the people claimed the lawyers cut communication after sending letters of demand to the accused parties.