• Legal Manager of Meridien Financial Services Limited. In that position acted as group Legal Counsel for the Meridien/Chibote Group of Companies including:
  
  Meridien BIAO Bank (Z) Limited, Meridien Leasing Limited, Meridien Insurance Brokers Limited, Meridien International Bank Limited, Chibote Limited, ITM (Z) Limited, Mazembe Tractor Company Limited, Minestone (Z) Limited, Madison Insurance Company Zambia Limited, Astra Engineering Limited, Industrial Equipment Limited and Chibote Meat Corporation Limited.
   
• Responsibilities included providing legal advice on various issues affecting the companies, representing the companies in numerous litigatious matters in courts, drawing up various contracts, perfecting mortgages, debentures and other securities; drawing up loan agreements for all advances effected by Meridien Financial Services; drawing credit facility agreement as required by lender institutions such as the PTA Bank, generally perfecting all borrowing documentation for group companies, debt collection responsibilities including pursuing defaulters on various loans given. Responsibilities also included heading the Legal Department and performing personnel and management related tasks vis a vis members of the Legal Department.
   
• Provided legal input into the setting up of the Lusaka Stock Exchange

1989-1993 (i) Lecturer in Law at the University of Zambia
               (ii) Part-time legal practitioner with Messrs Christopher Russell  
                   Cook and Company

1989 -1993 (i) Lecturer in Law at the University of Zambia
(ii) Part-time legal practitioner with Messrs Christopher Russell Cook and Company

Responsibilities as lecturer included teaching contract law, commercial law and the law of Business Associations to second year, third year and fourth year students respectively. Responsibilities also included organising moot court sessions as co-ordinator of the programme, editorial work on the Zambia Law Journal etc.

Also lectured international law to students pursuing a Post Graduate Diploma in International Law Course, and Legal Aspects of Engineering to the final year Engineering Students at the University.

Responsibilities as part time legal practitioner included conveyancing, probate company formation, litigation and handling conferences with various clients. Major clients included.-
Zambia Bata Shoe Company, Inter-Continental Hotels, ANZ Grindlays Bank, Union Bank, Indo-Zambia Bank, Marounouchi Company Limited, Lintco and the National Housing Authority.

4. OTHER APPOINTMENTS
1998 Company Secretary of the Lusaka Stock Exchange

1996 to date - Company Secretary of Zambia Ceramics Limited

5. OTHER SIGNIFICANT POSITIONS HELD
2002 - Hon. Secretary of the Law Association of Zambia 2002 - Vice President of the Human Rights Association of Zambia 2002 - Member of the Law Development Commission 2001 - to date Secretary of the Old Kafue Boys Association

2001 - To date Member of the Synod Bishop Advisory Committee of the United Church of Zambia

2000 - Certificated Court annexed Mediator

1999 - To date Member of the Legal Practitioners' Disciplinary Committee

1997- 2002 Member of the Law Association of Zambia Council

1991 - 1993 Legal Advisor to the University of Zambia

• Duties included offering day to day legal advice to the University administration on various matters including labour related issues, and contracts

1991 - 1992 Part time Legal Counsel of Wefa Limited - a private trading
company

1992 - 1993 Honorary Lecturer at the Law Practice Institute of the Council of Legal Education

1990 - 1991 Board Secretary of the Zambia Law Journal

1991 - 1992 Business Associate Editor of the Zambia Law Journal

1991 - 1993 Chairman of the Electoral Commission of the Lecturers and 
                 Researchers Union of the University of Zambia

1992-1993 Chairman of the Constitutional Review Committee of the   
               University of Zambia Senior Staff Association

6 RESEARCH WORK AND PUBLICATIONS

• Researched on "Investment Law and Transnational Corporations in
  Zambia" and submitted a long essay on the topic in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the LLB degree
• Author of the article "How Reasonable is the Reasonable relationship
  Rule in Provocation Cases? " in Legality 1987 issue
• Author of the article "the Use of Emergency Powers in Zambia: A
  comment on the Revocation of Trading Licences and Seizure of Property in 1988" in Legality 1988/89 issue
• Author of the article :The Law of Commerce and Investment in Zambia, Past, Present and Future" in Journal of South Africa Law. Part IV, 1991
•  "The Sleep of Reason: a case comment to the Simataa and Simataa v Attorney General" case in Zambia Law Journal 1991 issue
•  "Defacto Ratical Discrimination in Zambia" in Discrimination and the
  Law in Post Apartheid South Africa 1994

Articles awaiting publication (already submitted)
"Pick-a-Lot and Leave the Law: An Examination of the Law relating to the pick-a-lot State Lottery in Zambia"

"The State of Emergency, Multiparty Democracy and Constitutional Change in Zambia" (for the Zambia Law Journal)

7. MAJOR CONSULTANCIES
1991 Undertook a consultancy project with the PTA Secretariat to compile 
       a report on the trade and investment laws of Zimbabwe

1992 Provided the legal input on the consultancy on Zambia Media
       Privatisation Study undertaken by Coopers & Lybrand on behalf of the
       Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

2002 Was part of a team of four lawyers that examined all legislation in     
       Zambia with a view to identifying Acts that required amendment to 
       accommodate alternative dispute resolution and submitted a report to
       USAID

8. SEMINAR AND CONFERENCE PAPERS PRESENTED

• "Human Rights in Zambia, Fact or Fiction" paper presented to the
  Queen's College Series of Seminars in December 1988, Cambridge,
  England
   
• "The State of Emergency in Zambia, For How Long?" Paper presented to the University of Zambia Law Association in August 1989
   
• "The Law of Commerce and Investment in Zambia, Past, Present and
  Future" paper presented at the Symposium entitled Law and economic Reconstruction, Eastern Europe and Southern Africa held at Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, South Africa August 1990
   
• "The Sleep of the Just: Zambia's commitment to International Human
  Rights Instruments" paper presented at the University of Zambia Human Rights Seminar in September 1991
   
• "The Death Penalty in Zambia - A call for its Abolition" paper presented at the United Nations Association Seminar held at Mulungushi International Conference Centre, Lusaka in April 1992
   
• "The Punishment for Homicide in Zambia; Is it Appropriate?" paper
  presented at the Law Development Commission Seminar at the Andrews Motel, Lusaka in June 1992
   
• "Defacto Racial Discrimination in Zambia" Paper presented at
  International Conference on Defacto Racial Discrimination in Post
  Apartheid South Africa held in Pretoria in October 1992
   
• "The Legal Aspects to Zambia's Transition to Multiparty Politics" Paper presented at the International Conference on "Multiparty Democracy in Eastern and Central Africa "held in Dar-es-Salaam in November 1993

9 PARTICIPATION IN OTHER INTERNATIONAL FORA OTHER THAN
PRESENTATION OF PAPERS

• Participated in the 29th Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court
  Competition held in Washington DC from the 16th to the 23rd April 1988 as student representative from Zambia
   
• Participated in the Central and Southern Africa International Law Moot Court competition held in Gaborone, Botswana in 1987 as one of the two student representatives from the University of Zambia. Zambia won the first prize
   
• Attended the American Society of International Law Seminar in Washington DC in April 1991
   
• Delegate to the Paul Reuters International Law Seminar at Geneva,
  Switzerland for the 3rd June to the 21st June 1991. During the period had occasion to attend the plenary sessions of the International Law Commission and had occasional discussions and exchanges of views with the commissioners
   
• Attended the series of lectures in Human Rights at the International Institute for Human Rights at Strasbourg, France from 1st July to 30th July 1991
   
• Attended internship with the International Commission of Human Rights at Geneva Switzerland for two weeks from 1st August 1991

10. MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES AND HONORARY
SOCIETIES
-Member of the Law Association of Zambia (Member of the Executive Council since 1997)

-Member of the American Society of International Law Member of the International Bar Association Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society

11. CAREER OBJECTIVE
Desire to attain a practically oriented legal position which calls for detailed theoretical grasp of underlying principles, in government, private company, intergovernmental, regional or international organisation. Have a bias for lecturing, research and consultancy related work.

12. OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
Love table tennis, meeting people, jogging, riding and watching soccer

13. REFEREES
1. Dr Alfred W Chanda
Assistant Dean, School of Law
University of Zambia
P O Box 32379 Lusaka Zambia

2. Mr Kanti K Patel Senior Partner
Christopher Russell Cook & CO PO Box 34091
Lusaka Zambia Tel. 229366 Fax: 225713

Charles Kajimanga Kajimanga and Co. 2nd Floor,
Godfrey House
P O Box 50794
Lusaka Zambia
Tel: 234451/234436