CLIENT FUNDS NOT SAFE WITH HIM - LAW SOCIETY

MBABANE – The Law Society of Swaziland (LSS) says litigants are not safe in the hands of suspended popular Manzini lawyer Martin ‘Internash’ Dlamini.

They argued that this was so because he has a record of misappropriating trust or estate funds. Dlamini is now challenging his suspension and wants the decision by High Court Judge Cyril Maphanga set aside.

On May 3, 2017, the judge ordered that Dlamini be suspended from practice with immediate effect. This was after LSS moved an application to have him suspended and subsequently removed for various acts of professional misconduct.

Dlamini, who is also a former football administrator, was operating a law firm known as Martin N Dlamini Attorneys. In the application for suspension, the Law Society contended that Dlamini was no longer fit to practise as a lawyer due to the litany of cases of misconduct against him.

LSS further mentioned that in addition to the concerns of professional misconduct, it was concerned about the conduct of Dlamini in his private life. The LSS, through lawyers from Robinson Bertram, is vigorously opposing the application to have Dlamini’s suspension set aside.

The society argued that there were no grounds for the order granted by the court against Dlamini to be rescinded. LSS member of the Council Ketshidile Hlanze submitted that in terms of Rule 42, the High Court could rescind an order mero motu (on its own accord) or upon an application by any person affected by it if it was granted in error.

She informed the court that there were no allegations that the order to suspend Dlamini was issued erroneously.  Hlanze pointed out that Dlamini was personally served with the notice of set down by a deputy sheriff.

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