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IBA President Faults FACTI Report

The President of International Bar Association, Mr Sternford Moyo has faulted the FACTI report, saying the recommendation would undermine independence of the legal profession. Mr Moyo said that a recommendation contained in a report published recently, that governments should regulate Lawyers in line with ‘the demands of sustainable finance and the public interest’, is concerning. At the publication’s launch, Mr. Moyo addressed a panel of high-ranking United Nations Member States’ representatives with his reservations. The new report on barriers to achieving the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, is authored by FACTI – the High Level Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity for Achieving the 2030 Agenda, which was launched in March 2020 by the President of the United Nations General Assembly Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, and the President of the UN Economic and Social Council Mona Juul, and co-chaired by the former Prime Minister

The new slur: we are professional enablers

By Jonathan Goldsmith2021-03-02T10:00:00+00:00 It cannot be a coincidence that, on the same day at the end of last week, two reports from international organisations were published in which lawyers were denigrated as ‘professional enablers’. They did not mean it in a good way. They were not talking about enabling the rule of law and fundamental rights. They meant it as a slur, as in enabling criminal behaviour. Our reputation is going down right before our eyes. It did not start with those reports, and it will not end with them. Jonathan Goldsmith The first report came from a panel set up by the United Nations, its High Level Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity for Achieving the 2030 Agenda, called the

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