A Compulsory Research Report Submitted to Mzumbe University – Mbeya Campus College in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for an Award of the Bachelor Degree of Laws (LL.B) of Mzumbe University
This study was about the assessment of the law relating to the advertisements for the advocate. The purpose of this study was generated from the Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania of 1977, which provides for the right of legal representation and the other legal service. Purposely to assess the laws relating to advertisement for the advocate the way suffice the public to be aware on the availability of advocate and access to the legal service of their choice.
This research conducted by using both methods primary and secondary. Hence employed three research techniques to collect primary data namely interview, questionnaire and Focus Group Discussion. The researcher involves various respondents such as Layman (member of the public), law students, and advocates from some of legal firms. The researcher actually attempts to analyze the problem which faces people in Mbeya in accessing legal service of their choice without any difficulties. This because the law has put restriction on the advertising for advocate, which most of the ways are not well accessible by the public at large.
In conducting of this study, a researcher found that the people in Mbeya are mostly not aware to where may found advocate who may be competence for their case at hand and are not as well capable to access of the other legal service due to the current ways and restrictions which do not enable the public being aware by those ways. Therefore, the law relating to advertising for advocate result to the denies of their right to legal service. Therefore, due to this problem there are need for the amendments of the current laws governing advertising for advocate and there need for additional ways of advertising that may enable the public being aware and have access to the legal service, as well as inclusion of relevant provision to the principal legislation. So, there is a need of a significant legal reform for the sake of insuring public being aware and capable of having legal service of their choice.
This research report has contained five chapters including chapter one which prescribe the general introduction of the study, chapter two which provides the meaning of various concepts as used in the study, chapter three gives the legal framework covered the study, chapter four provides the data presentations, analysis and general findings of the study and chapter five gives the conclusion and recommendations of the study in general.