Two Spectra Oil directors have asked the Lusaka Magistrates Court to allow them a chance to engage lawyers before they can take plea on charges of contravening an order to cease operations and implementing a project without an approval letter. Spectra Oil Finance director Maximillan Hamukale and his operations counterpart Hyden Banda yesterday told magistrate...

Zambian ex-heavyweight champion Joseph ‘No Pressure’ Chingangu has yet again appeared in the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court for breaking into a house in Libala. This is barely six months after UNZA students beat him up after he was caught stealing a laptop. It is alleged that Chingangu, on March 19 this year, in Lusaka with intent...

The Lusaka Magistrates' Court has set July 14 as judgment date in a case where Sylvia Masebo is alleged to have illegally canceled hunting concessions at the Zambia Wild Life Authority when she was Tourism Minister. Resident magistrate Ireen Wishimanga set the judgment date following the close of Masebo's defence. In closing defence, Masebo’s witness;...

HIGH Court judge Susan Wanjelani has reserved ruling to May 19 in a matter where Fred M'membe and wife Mutinta are challenging the continued presence of police officers at their residence on Nangwenya road in Lusaka's Rhodes Park area. When the matter came up this morning, M'membe and wife through a team of lawyers led...

THE Lusaka High Court yesterday failed to hear the matter in which 54 UPND members of parliament have challenged Speaker Patrick Matibini's decision to reprimand them for boycotting official opening of Parliament last September. This was because the state was not ready. The UPND members of parliament in this case applied for leave to commence...

Komboni Radio director Lesa Kasoma has told the Lusaka Magistrates' Court that she was brutally beaten by police officers last October after they blocked her from accessing the radio station despite the lifting of its broadcasting license suspension. And Lesa, who is in this case charged with assault on police, admitted biting constable Simon Chisanga...

A Chibomo resident has petitioned the Constitutional Court asking it to declare 52 UPND seats vacant for shunning President Edgar Lungu’s State of the Nation address. In his petition filed in court today, Richard Mumba also wants the Concourt to declare that Mazabuka UPND member of parliament Garry Nkombo and 51 of his colleagues are...

LUSAKA High Court judge Chalwe M'chenga has acquitted two persons accused of murdering NIPA student Ruth Mbandu for lack of sufficient evidence. This is in a matter where Soma and Edward Siamandima were alleged to have gruesomely murdered Mbandu in 2012. Passing his judgment yesterday, Judge M'chenga said the prosecution failed to prove its case...

THE Law Association of Zambia has applied to join proceedings in which five former Post Newspaper Limited employees and the Zambia Revenue Authority are seeking to liquidate the company. LAZ president Linda Kasonde stated in an affidavit in support of summons for an order for joinder of a party to the proceedings, that the matter...

The Lusaka Magistrate Court has discharged Luckson Kazabu who was last week detained for allegedly issuing death threats to a witness in a case where lawyer Martha Mushipe is charged with seditious practice. When the matter came up today, magistrate Felix Kaoma discharged Kazabu who was on a K20,000 bail and recommended that his matter...