{"id":80104,"date":"2023-07-06T11:30:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T09:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/lawyer-in-dock-over-fake-certificate"},"modified":"2023-07-06T14:47:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T12:47:07","slug":"lawyer-in-dock-over-fake-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/lawyer-in-dock-over-fake-certificate","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer in dock over \u2018fake\u2019 certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>HARARE lawyer Linda Kovi yesterday appeared in court charged with possession of a fake practising certificate she allegedly acquired in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Kovi (34) of Kanoti and Partners Public Interest lawyers was granted US$300 by magistrate Stanford Mambanje who remanded the matter to August 7 pending finalisation of investigations.<\/p>\n<p>The complainant is the State represented by Joe Zimba, a finance and administration manager for the Council for Legal Education (CLE).<\/p>\n<p>Allegations are that sometime in 2019, Kovi graduated from the University of Africa in Lusaka, Zambia, with a bachelor of laws degree.<\/p>\n<p>She was supposed to obtain a certificate of conversion with the CLE to practise in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, she enrolled with the CLE, sat for examinations for four modules in June 2020.<\/p>\n<p>She allegedly passed one module and failed in three others.<\/p>\n<p>She went on to register and sit for the civil procedure, statutes and ethics modules, and failed.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations proved that she also did not write the bookkeeping module as required.<\/p>\n<p>She allegedly later bribed a CLE employee to facilitate the printing of a certificate.<\/p>\n<p>The employee allegedly gave the money to CLE executive secretary Huggins Hardwork Duri who is already on remand.<\/p>\n<p>Kovi allegedly approached the High Court of Zimbabwe and applied to be admitted as a legal practitioner and was duly admitted after presenting the \u2018fake\u2019certificate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. HARARE lawyer Linda Kovi yesterday appeared in court charged with possession of a fake practising certificate she allegedly acquired in 2020. Kovi (34) of Kanoti and Partners Public Interest lawyers was granted US$300 by magistrate Stanford Mambanje who remanded the matter to August 7 pending finalisation of investigations. 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