THE Lusaka High Court has sentenced four Chirundu men to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour for unauthorised possession of defence force uniform. Lusaka High Court Judge Wilfred Muma said the four men deserved to be punished in order to protect the community from deception. He said the four men decided to wear the defence...

FIVE Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have asked the Lusaka High Court to grant them a conservatory order preventing the prosecution of people under the Cyber Security and Cyber Crimes Act pending determination of their petition. The NGOs have submitted that there is a risk of Zambians being unjustly and illegally deprived of their rights if the...

THE Lusaka High Court has entered a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity in a case in which a house maid and her daughter were charged with the murder of six people, among them family members. The bodies of the deceased were discovered in an unfinished building in Chalala area in 2016 in...

LUSAKA Chief Resident Magistrate Lameck Mwale has found Chishimba Kambwili with a case to answer in a matter he is charged with defamation of the President in relation to his "imbwa sha bantu yaleikala fye ku Chawama" remarks. He has since been placed on his defence which he is expected to open on April 20,...

MAAMBA Collieries Limited has argued that the case in which its 52 former employees who were retrenched over 20 years ago have sued it for payment of more than K6 million pension dues, is statute barred. (A statute barred legal action is one which cannot be brought to trial in a civil court because too...

FIVE Non-Governmental Organizations have petitioned the Lusaka High Court for a declaration that various provisions of the Cyber Security and Cyber Crimes Act are unconstitutional and should be struck off from the statute books. The five NGOs, who have cited the Attorney General and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) as respondents, have argued that...

A SUSPECTED UPND supporter who is accused of murdering a Patriotic Front member has been committed to the High Court for trial. In this case, Lonica Musomela, a 52-year-old business lady of Kanyama Compound, is charged with one count of murder. It is alleged that Musomela, on January 28, 2021 in Lusaka, murdered Terrence Mutale....

THE Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has submitted before the Constitutional Court that it is empowered under the laws to prescribe election fees. It has further submitted that Radical Revolutionary Party president Vincent Chaile, who has petitioned the ConCourt over what he terms high nomination fees for this year's general elections, cannot stop the commission...

THE State has closed its case in a matter in which New Labour Party leader Fresher Siwale is charged with defamation of the President. Principle resident magistrate Alice Walusiku has since set June 10, this year, for a ruling on whether Siwale has a case to answer. In this matter, Siwale is alleged to have...

ZCCM Investment Holdings has argued that the High Court will be assuming jurisdiction it does not have by determining Vedanta Resources Holdings Limited's application for directions regarding the extent of Milingo Lungu's powers as KCM provisional liquidator following the staying of winding-up proceedings against the mining company and the dispute referred to arbitration. ZCCM-IH has...