The Malawi Law Society (MLS) has won a judicial review case of the interdiction of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director general Martha Chizuma over a leaked audio. High Court judge Mike Tembo, in his judgement made on May 5 2023, agreed with the lawyers’ body that the power to suspend or interdict the ACB boss was
Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) chief executive officer Henry Kachaje can now breathe a sigh of relief following court dismissal of the Office of the Ombudsman bid to vacate an order validating his employment status. The Office of Ombudsman appealed against the injunction Mera obtained stopping the release of findings of an investigation into the
The High Court of Malawi is now set to deliver its judgement in a nine-year-old K2.4 billion Cashgate case involving former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo and 17 others. The progress follows a ruling by the court yesterday dismissing Mphwiyo’s application to stay proceedings. If granted, the court would have restarted the proceedings.
Former Minister of Homeland Security Uladi Mussa wants the court to nullify his conviction barely days after President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera pardoned him as part
Former Cabinet minister Uladi Mussa’s lawyer wants to move the court to nullify his client’s conviction following his pardon by President Lazarus Chakwera as part Easter celebrations. If the application is accepted by the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal, the legal position would be that Mussa, who was serving a five-year jail term for abuse