The Diary has dusted off its ever popular column commemorating attacks on the legal profession, in this case casting the net wide to come up with an unusual, but rather impressive piece of lawyer bashing from the international stage.

That’s right, Zambia’s opposition party, the Forum of Democracy and Development (FDD), has pooled its collective venom to accuse President Mwanawasa of the worst crime imaginable – “trying to make the Government look like a law firm”.