A CONSTITUTIONAL lawyer has dragged the Judicial Complaints Commission (JCC) and the state to the Constitutional Court, seeking an interim order to stay President Hakainde Hichilema’s decision to suspend three Constitutional Court judges. Tresford Chali wants the ConCourt to grant him a stay of President Hichilema’s decision of September 23, 2024, to suspend Constitutional Judges Anne Sitali, Mungeni Mulenga and Palan Mulonda. Chali also wants an order of certiorari to remove into the Constitutional Court for purposes of quashing the decision of President Hichilema to accept the recommendations of the JCC to suspend Judges Sitali, Mulenga and Mulonda. He further wants an order of certiorari to remove into the Constitutional Court for purposes of quashing the report of the JCC...

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