THE Constitutional Court has dismissed a matter in which former Kabushi PF member of parliament Bowman Lusambo sued the state, challenging the Chief Justice’s decision to administratively set up the Economic and Financial Crimes Court. A panel of five Constitutional Court judges has ruled that the Chief Justice did not violate any provisions of the Constitution when he set up the court in question at the Subordinate Court and High Court. Lusambo was in this matter seeking an order and declaration that the setting up of the Economic and Financial Crimes Court administratively at the subordinate court level was in breach of Article 120 (3)(c) of the Constitution and was therefore unconstitutional and illegal. Lusambo, who cited the Attorney General...

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