ZAMBIA Law Development Commission (ZLDC) Director Hope Chanda says due to public outcry, the commission is working on addressing certain provisions considered as old colonial legislation, as part of its law review process. Speaking on Hot FM's Talking Law Review programme, Wednesday, Chanda said addressing colonial provisions would ensure a predictable and objective criminal justice...

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema’s Principal Private Secretary Bradford Machila says he cannot say whether or not he met Milingo Lungu because the matter is in court. And Machila has dispelled allegations that he has been blocking people from meeting the Head of State, saying there are simply too many requests which are processed over time. Some...

JUSTICE Minister Mulambo Haimbe has insisted that President Hakainde Hichilema can never meet any person faced with criminal charges for the purposes of subverting the course of justice. Meanwhile, Haimbe has warned government officials that a breach of secrecy or confidentiality has consequences. Asked if there was a meeting between the President and Milingo Lungu...

PF lawyer Tutwa Ngulube has charged that the UPND government is trying to frame Director of Public Prosecutions Lillian Siyunyi. In a court petition filed recently, Milingo Lungu disclosed that he entered into a bargain with the State to resign as KCM provisional liquidator and to participate in an audit to reconcile his remuneration fees,...

SUSPENDED Lusaka Lawyer Jonas Zimba has asked the Constitutional Court to determine whether the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) can be subjected to the procedure under the Judicial Code of Conduct Act when she is not a judicial officer. He also wants the court to determine whether Article 236 of the Constitution of Zambia as...

THE Director of Public Prosecutions has entered a nolle prosequi in favour of seven of the eight UPND supporters who were accused of killing two PF youths in Lusaka's Kanyama Township. However, one of the eight accused persons, Samsom Mumba, is still facing the murder charges Meanwhile, there was massive jubilation from the accuseds' sympathisers...

ANTI-CORRUPTION Commission spokesperson Queen Chibwe says the Commission had on Wednesday called former gender minister Elizabeth Phiri to provide information in an ongoing investigation. On Wednesday, Phiri was spotted at the Commission in the company of several people who looked like her lawyers. Phiri had arrived at the Commission around 09:30 hours in the morning....

ACTING PF secretary general Nickson Chilangwa says the party will contest all seizures of its vehicles and other properties by investigative wings. But the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) says the recently advertised gazette notice notifying named parties to claim 71 properties which included vehicles, motorbikes, guns, among others which the Commission had impounded, was not only...

WHEN we look at how the UPND government is conducting government affairs, we get the impression that they don’t have a coordinated approach towards resolving the problems that they are encountering. It’s like they are afraid to act, and this is going to cost them dearly. They seem scared to do the job for which...