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May- 2023 -31 MayCourt News
Chilangwa contests bench warrant in High Court
PATRIOTIC Front (PF) acting deputy secretary general, Nickson Chilangwa, has petitioned the Lusaka High Court, contesting the decision by the Kawambwa Magistrate Court to issue a bench warrant against him.Mr Chilangwa contends that the issuance of the bench warrant violates his right to a fair trial.Last week, Magistrate Martin Namushi issued a bench warrant against Mr Chilangwa, who is also Kawambwa Central Member of Parliament for absconding court sessions.
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23 MayCourt News
Now, Attorney General, Maureen Mwanawasa sued
THE Attorney General and former first lady, Maureen Mwanawasa, have been taken to Court, with the litigants demanding the removal of armed paramilitaries from the retirement house of late President Levy Mwanawasa, now owned by Lusaka University Limited. In a petition filed in the Lusaka High Court, by the initial buyers of late President’s property, located in Chongwe, Ms Esther Chipasi and Mr Mustapha Kwabena Osuman, allege that Ms Mwanawasa has refused to vacate the premises of the property which was currently guarded by armed paramilitaries.
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6 MayCourt News
ACC disputes K700, 000 claim by former officer
By GRACE CHAILE The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has submitted to the Lusaka High Court, that Choma based Chief Resource Management officer, is not entitled to his claim of K700,000 as he was not maliciously prosecuted.
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5 MayCourt News
Fredson Yamba sues ACC over frozen bank accounts
FORMER Secretary to the Treasury, Fredson Yamba, has sued the Anti- Corruption Commission (ACC), alleging that the freezing of his bank account held at Absa Bank PLC is illegal. According to originating summons filed in the Lusaka High Court on Wednesday, Mr Yamba is seeking an order that the notice of restriction dated March 6, 2023, issued by the Director General of ACC is illegal. He also wants the restriction notice to be immediately reversed owing to its illegality. In an affidavit in support of originating summons, Mr Yamba stated in 2021,he was arrested by the the Commission and charged with the…
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Apr- 2023 -23 AprilCourt News
THREE DRAG VILLAGE BANKING GROUP TO COURT OVER K400, 000
Chama Chisunka, Yvette Phiri and Jacques Chanda have sued Mary Munanyimbo, Claudette Mulumba, Mumba Musanda and Kapembwa Kangwa, seeking an order of the Lusaka High Court for the defendants to pay them K476, 564.41 with interest.
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20 AprilCourt News
Pamela Chisumpa’s abductor mentally fit to stand trial
High Court Judge Charles Kafunda has ruled that James Bwalya, one of the alleged abductors of 13 women in Lusaka, is mentally fit to stand trial as his antisocial personality disorder is not a mental illness.
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12 AprilCourt News
ACC sued over seized motor vehicles
GOOD Governance Zambia Limited has filed a lawsuit against the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) demanding for the release of its motor vehicles as they are not government property. But ACC has submitted in its defence that the issuance of the restriction notice of March 9, 2022 was done in accordance to the provisions of section 60 of the ACC Act no. 2012. The company involved conducting civic education activities contends that the restriction notices issued by ACC have expired and have no legal effect in accordance with section 60(3) (a) of the ACC act no. 3 of 2012 of the laws…
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11 AprilCourt News
PF asks court to set aside Miles Sampa’s injunction proceedings
THE Patriotic Front (PF) has asked the Lusaka High Court to set aside the committal proceedings commenced by Miles Sampa against four senior party officials for allegedly ignoring an injunction not to hold themselves out of their positions. The four PF senior officials include Nickson Chilangwa, the party’s acting deputy secretary general, party acting president Given Lubinda, Mr Raphael Nakacinda, the information and publicity chairperson and Mr Davies Chama the national chairman. In February. 2023, Judge Timothy Katenekwa granted Mr Sampa an ex-parte order of interim injunction, restraining the said party officials from suspending or expelling him. In his notice…
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7 AprilHeadline News
Judge Kafunda rejects medical report in the Pamela Chisumpa case
LUSAKA High Court Judge Charles Kafunda has rejected the medical report presented to him that James Bwalya, one of the men accused of abducting Pamela Chisumpa and 12 others, is not fit to stand trial due to traumatic spinal code injury. On Monday, Bwalya’s lawyer Osborne Ngoma told the Court that the accused was involved in an activity that led to a fall and sustained back injuries, therefore required medical examination to ascertain his fitness to attend trial. Judge Kafunda allowed the application that Bwalya be examined between Monday and Wednesday and the report tendered to Court on April 6,…
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4 AprilCourt News
Pamela Chisumpa’s abductors to undergo mental exams
TWO men accused of abducting Pamela Chisumpa and 12 other females in Lusaka’s Chalala area will undergo mental examination before taking plea in the High Court.
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