10 Dec, 2016 | Declarations, News, Press Releases
The documented history of the legal profession in Africa is that, previously, from the 1970s, there were a number of continental-level lawyers’ associations, which were divided along linguistic lines. They were of course weak, due to the small number of lawyers then,...
23 Apr, 2016 | Declarations, Press Releases
L'Union panafricaine des avocats (PALU/UPA), l'organisme continental par excellence des avocats en Afrique, condamne dans les termes les plus fermes les récentes attaques xénophobes contre les étrangers, pour la plupart d'autres Africains, qui ont été menées par une...
23 Apr, 2015 | Declarations, News
The Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU), the pre-eminent continental body of lawyers in Africa, condemns in the strongest terms the recent xenophobic attacks against foreigners, mostly other Africans, which have been carried out by a small section of South African...
12 Feb, 2011 | Declarations
WE the Bar Leaders and Representatives from over forty National and Regional, Bar Associations and Law Societies, sitting as the Council of The Pan African Lawyers.’ Union (PALU) during its meeting held on 12th February 2010, in Kigali, Rwanda, discussed .“Rule of Law...
26 Jan, 2010 | Declarations
The Pan African Lawyers Union, a transcontinental professional organisation bringing together lawyers and jurists of the African Continent and the Diaspora, headquartered in Addis Ababa Ethiopia, Member of the Economic, Social and Cultural Council of the African...
25 Oct, 2009 | Declarations
Declaration on the situation in Guinea for the attention of the meeting of ministers of foreign affairs of ECOWAS holding in Abuja, Federal Republic of Nigeria, 12th October 2009. The Pan African Lawyers Union, a transcontinental professional organisation bringing...