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MBINDOLA
MBINDOLA
6 years ago

The issue here is that the Supreme Court Judge is taking too long to decide whether he will proceed with the case or not. I thought you are the very people who say delaying a case is to deny one justice. In my view the journalist has the right to question on behalf of us why the judge is taking too long. This is not first time the judiciary seems not to be fair to these people. Supreme Court Judge Mzikamanda did a similar thing on Ralph’s Revocation of bail appeal. After the judge had a full hearing on the… Read more »

Hlabezulu Ngonoonda
Hlabezulu Ngonoonda
6 years ago

Each case that a High Court Judge or Supreme Court Judge handles is unique. The fact that Judge Mwaungulu handled the Chaponda Case within three days of receiving it was not a precedent that he could do the same with the Ralph Kasambara Case. In the latter case, there is this issue of recusal. At an opportune time, Judge Mwaungulu will deliver it without being influenced by any pressure from any quarter. In fact a judge bows of out hearing a case in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned. The test of impartiality is whether his conduct would create… Read more »

Philip Chiletso
Philip Chiletso
6 years ago

Could it be that he too has succumbed to pressures (financial and political) as the other honourable judge did earlier? It is ironic that only Kasambara’s cases should make judges jittery, or is it an opportunity for them to squeeze out some “benefits” from the powers that be.
On another note, one wonders what the whole Chief Justice is doing about all this and the other many cases whose rulings are being sat on by our learned judges?

DENGERE MTONGA
6 years ago

Leave the judge alone. You think you can influence his decisions in a way that would please you. Journal omvetsa chisoni, sponsored all the time -Idriss Alli Nassah- shame! Write something that would make alot more news to us!

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