LUSAKA Magistrate Alice Walusiku has ordered that two Marshlands Consortium Limited directors, Tobias Milambo and Richard Lubemba, will remain in custody until September 22, this year, when the case comes up for hearing of the State’s response to their bail application. This is in a matter in which three Marshlands Consortium Limited directors are facing...

LUSAKA High Court judge Sharon Newa has sentenced a 28-year-old man of Rufunsa District to 50 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling his sister, who is an imbecile. In her judgement, justice Newa said the case made a sad reading as the convict, being a biological brother to the victim, was aware that she...

NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili yesterday failed to appear before the Lusaka Magistrate's Court as he is still unwell. Kambwili is reported to have COVID-19. In this matter, Kambwili, his son Mwamba, Mwamona Engineering and Technical Services, Lukwesa Musonda Brano and Mulenga Makasa Kapilima are charged with; one count of making a document without authority, one...

SUSPENDED Patriotic Front Eastern Province youth chairperson Emmanuel Banda, commonly known as Jay Jay, yesterday appeared before the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court in a case in which he is accused of assaulting a police officer with intent to steal. Meanwhile, there was a heavy presence of Zambia Police officers, who were securing the Court complex ahead...

LUSAKA Chief Resident Magistrate Lameck Mwale has sentenced a security guard to three years’ imprisonment with hard labour for breaking into High Court Judge Sunday Bwalya Nkonde’s house and stealing property worth over K55,000. In this matter, Afelo Banda of Lusaka’s Kalinganga area was charged with burglary and theft. Particulars of the offence were that...

A WITNESS has told the Ndola Magistrates' Court that some of his clients cancelled their contracts after seeing Chellah Tukuka's Facebook posts that he would burn trucks belonging to Khalif Motors Zambia Limited. This is in a matter where Chellah, 34, is charged with publishing defamatory matter, threatening violence and showing hatred towards someone because...

LUSAKA Chief Resident Magistrate Lameck Mwale has refused to refer the case in which Lusaka photographer Cornelius Chellah Tukuta is charged with libel to the High Court for constitutional reference. Magistrate Mwale dismissed the said application by Tukuta’s defence lawyers to refer the case to the High Court, as it lacked merit and further ordered...

ABSA Bank Zambia PLC has submitted to the Lusaka High Court that Barclays Bank Zambia PLC and ABSA Bank Zambia are one and the same legal entity, adding that all rights and liabilities of the entity prior to the name change are not affected as a result. It has, therefore, asked the court to set...

LUSAKA Magistrate Felix Kaoma has set free Lusaka lawyer Martha Mushipe, who was facing a charge of seditious practices. Magistrate Kaoma said in his ruling yesterday that the seditious material on which the said offence was anchored on does not appear by any stretch of imagination to contain any seditious words or seditious intentions. Meanwhile,...

AN investigations officer has narrated to the Kitwe High Court how he received a docket of murder for investigation and he later learnt that four people of the same family were attacked, of which one was allegedly raped and another murdered. Mavuto Nkhata, who was testifying in a case where Chingola-based small scale miner Kabaso...