Adv. Pie HABIMANA has been elected the Vice-President of the East Africa Law Society
During the 25th General Assembly held in November 2020, Adv. Pie HABIMANA has been elected the Vice-President of the East Africa Law Society. Pie Habimana is the Managing Partner of Amilex Chambers since 2017. He was called to the bar in 2011 and he is a member of the Rwanda Bar Association governing Council since 2017. Pie Habimana practices in the field of business law as counsel or arbitrator. Besides, Pie Habimana is a lecturer at the University of Rwanda School of Law and at the Institute of Legal Practice and Development. The election is for a mandate of two years, from 2020 to 2022. Pie Habimana is an international tax law scholar and has published several research articles in that field.
Founded in 1995, the East Africa Law Society is the apex regional bar association of East Africa. The EALS currently counts 17,000 lawyers from the seven national bars in the East African Community, namely the Burundi Bar Association, Law Society of Kenya, Rwanda Bar Association, South Sudan Bar Association, Tanganyika Law Society, Uganda Law Society, and Zanzibar Law Society. The Society’s objectives are summarized into four, namely: fast track the integration of the East African Community; develop the capacity of the legal profession to respond to emerging challenges to businesses, governance, and trade; promote the rule of law, good governance, and human rights; and support the EAC institutions such as the EALA, the EACJ, the Secretariat, in developing tools aimed at realizing the EAC integration.
As Vice-President, Pie Habimana will assume the second-ranking position in the EALS, under the presidency of the Ugandan lawyer Bernard Oundo. The new officers in the current governing Council of the EALS were elected during the EALS General Assembly, held in Bujumbura – Burundi in November 2020. In his mandate, Pie Habimana plans to further the development of the Society towards achieving its objectives. Some of his specific objectives are to increase the benefits to EALS members alongside making the society more visible to the citizens of the East African Community.
Congratulations the Vice-President.