Our Objectives

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The Malawi Law Society was established as a body corporate by the Legal Education and Legal Practitioners Act 1965.

Secretariat

Our Secretariat is based in Blantyre, and hosts the Legal Resources Centre which holds a range of legal publications and law reports and which is visited by lawyers, law students and members of the public.

Objectives

The Malawi Law Society's (Society) objectives include:

1. to represent, protect and assist legal practitioners as regards conditions of practice and otherwise;
   
   
2. to present the views of legal practitioners and sustain and preserve their rights and status;
   
   
3. to engage in formal or informal activities designed to foster and extend the study of law and for the benefit both of members of the Society or other persons interested in the legal profession;
   
   
4. to protect and assist the public in Malawi on all matters touching, ancillary or incidental to the law;
   
   
5. to acquire, hold, develop or dispose of property and to deprive capital or income therefrom, for all or any of its objects;
   
   
6. to raise or borrow money for all or any of its objects in such manner and upon such security as may from time to time be determined by the Society;
   
   
7. to invest and deal with moneys of the Society not immediately required in such a manner as may be determined by the Society;
   
   
8. to do all such other things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of its objects.

Objectives | Governing Instrument | Committees| Activities