The Association’s objects are:

a) To further the development of law as an instrument of social order and justice and as an essential element in the growth of society;

b) To provide a means by which lawyers, whatever their particular field of activity, can participate together fully and effectively in the development of society and its institutions;

c) To encourage lawyers as individuals to join actively in the life of, and identify themselves with people and to utilize their skills and training in their service;

d) To promote the education of lawyers at all stages and levels, with particular emphasis on the broadening of such education;

e) To consider the qualifications of lawyer and to make recommendations to the Government thereon;

f) To maintain and improve the standards of conduct of all members of the legal profession;

g) To consider legislation related to legal aid and other ways of securing representation for persons who for any reason are unable to secure it, and to make recommendations to the Government thereon; and to establish machinery for the provision of legal aid in addition to that provided by the Government;

h) To cooperate with the representative bodies of other professions and other institutions;

i) To promote research in the development of law in general and particularly in relation to;

j) The applicability and suitability of received law;
(i) the character and consent of customary law;
(ii) The influence of industrial, commercial and technological development on society and social institutions;

k) To promote the reform of the law, both by the amendment of and the removal of the imperfections in the existing law, by the re-informulation, codification, or restatement of particular branches of the law;

l) To participate when called upon in draft legislation, and to strengthen the machinery for the critical examination of its legal quality;

m) To seek the advancement of the rule of law and the rights and liberties of the individual;

n) To promote the improvement and reform of the judicial and administrative systems, including tribunals and their procedure;

o) To represent, protect and assist members of the legal profession in regard to their conditions of practice, remuneration and otherwise;

p) To protect and assist the public in all matters touching on and ancillary or incidental to the legal profession;

q) To do all such other things as may be conducive to the attainment of the foregoing objects or any of them.

Structure
The Association’s headquarters and Secretariat is based in Lusaka. The bodies of the Association are:

- The Annual General Meeting
- The Council
- The Executive
- The Secretariat
- Approx. 17 Committees
- 1 Disciplinary Committee

Brief Historical Background
The Law Association of Zambia is a professional organisation bringing together more than 600 legal practitioners. The Association was founded in 1973 and brings together all practicing members of the legal profession. Prior to this, the Association was called the Law Society of Zambia.

Membership Information

Members: Individual advocates practicing in Zambia and students enrolled in the University of Zambia Law School.

Number of members: 620

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