THE Judicial Complaints Commission (JCC) has recommended the removal of controversial Lusaka Magistrate David Simusamba from presiding as a judicial officer. There have been various complaints against the conduct of Magistrate Simusamba, the latest being a case where Chishimba Kambwili reported him to the Anti Corruption Commission before asking the Chief Justice to compel him...

LUSAKA lawyer and former president Rupiah Banda’s Special Assistant for Press and Public Relations, Dickson Jere, has dragged economist Noel Nkoma to the Lusaka High Court for allegedly accusing him of being a liar and an attention seeker in one of the Whatsapp groups. The alleged defamatory words were uttered following Jere’s eulogy in honour...

INTELLIGENT Mobility Solutions (IMS) board chairman Walid El Nahas has applied for leave to commence judicial review proceedings in the Lusaka High Court against the Immigration Director General's decision to reject his application for renewal of his residence permit. Walid wants the court to grant him permission to apply for judicial review and that it...

A HOTEL in Waterfalls area of Chongwe district has sued Zambia Airports Corporation Limited, seeking damages for negligence after a fire allegedly escaped from the overgrown grass in the Corporation's premises to the hotel buildings, resulting in loss and damage to property. OSLO Hotel Limited is further seeking costs, interest and any other relief the...

THE Court of Appeal has refused to grant Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Jack Mwiimbu leave to commence judicial review proceedings against Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Patrick Matibini’s decision to allow continued consideration of Bill 10 in Parliament despite it lapsing. In the ruling delivered by Court of Appeal Judge Justin Chashi...

THREE women NGOs have petitioned the Constitutional Court of Zambia seeking the Court’s intervention in redressing discrimination of marginalized women and youths from participating in the democratic governance of the country. In a joint statement which was read by NGOCC Legal Advisor Daisy Ng'ambi, NGOCC, Chapter One Foundation, and the Young Women in Action charged...

COURT of Appeal judge Mubanga Kondolo has fined Kingsland City Investment Limited K175,000 for disobeying the injunction which restrained continued works at Kingsland City. Judge Kondolo ordered that the said amount should be paid into court within the next four weeks, failure to which the Chief Executive Officer of Kingsland City Investment Limited, Huang Bing...

SECRETARY to the Treasury Fredson Yamba has submitted to the Constitutional Court that the correct amount of repatriation allowances former Cabinet ministers and their deputies, who received emoluments after the dissolution of Parliament in 2016, are entitled to is K8,000 each and not the K15,000 they are claiming. Yamba adds that his office has, therefore,...

TWO Health Practitioners have told the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court that COVID-19 results for NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili were negative on September 4, this year, after re-testing him. Copperbelt Provincial Health director Robert Zulu told the Court that Kambwili's latest results came out negative on September 4, this year, but were only communicated to him by...

SENIOR Chief Mukupa Katandula of Nchelenge District in Luapula Province on Monday appeared before the Lusaka Magistrates' Court on summons, as a shareholder and director in Luapula Hydropower Corporation Limited. This is in relation to a complaint that has been lodged in the Lusaka Magistrates' Court against Luapula Hydropower Corporation Limited for failure to surrender...