
The Head of Civil Litigation at the Attorney General’s Chambers Morulaganyi Chamme has refuted accusations from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that there may be some lawyers at state law firm who conspire against government by ill advising her. Chamme was appearing before the PAC,standing in for Attorney General Dr Athaliah Molokomme. MP for Tati West, Biggie Butale had asked Chamme to explain to the committee why it would seem that the state was losing a lot of cases with costs, which in most cases had been clear from the start that they were indefensible. “If at all these people who are said to be advising government in legal matters are doing so, it looks like they are giving it a rope to hang,” Butale charged, accusing the Attorney General’s chambers of having a conspiracy against government. Chamme refuted these claims, saying they generally emerge victorious in most cases they contest in court. He also absolved the state law firm from ever ill advising government. “We have won at least 85 percent of our cases,” said Chamme. He was however at pains to answer, whether in cases where it was clear cut that the odds were up against the state,…