A legal row has erupted over who should represent Speaker of Parliament Sameer Suleman and the National Assembly in a High Court case challenging plans to establish 12 parliamentary committees. Nicholls & Brookes, the law firm appointed by the Parliamentary Service Commission to represent the Speaker and Parliament, has asked the High Court to set […]
A prominent Malawian lawyer has ignited a fierce row over press freedom after publicly accusing the country’s leading newspaper of being little more than a mouthpiece for whoever pays to get their story told. Bright Theu, a well-known private practice lawyer, took to Facebook to launch his blistering attack on The Nation Publications Limited, branding […]
Malawians have been hit with a shock warning: one sexually offensive remark could land you behind bars for FIVE YEARS — or cost you a cool K1 million — as a top lawyer blasts the country’s “casual culture” around harassment. Legal firebrand Bright Theu lit up social media, telling Malawians that even so‑called “jokes” or […]
A group of lawyers and law academics have petitioned the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) to fire former Chief Secretary to the Government Llyod Muhara as a judge of the Hight Court for misconduct including allegations of corruption and abuse of office that will compromised his integrity at the bar. In a letter seen by Nyasa […]
Private practice lawyer Bright Theu has warned President Peter Mutharika to stop his continued condemnation of the Judiciary for annulling the May 2019 presidential election, saying if anything he should blame his legal team for “clearly unprofessional and embarrassing” show in the elections case. Theu challenges Mutharika that he has no legal authority to decide legal disputes. Since […]
Private practice lawyer, Bright Theu, has questioned government’s decision to put Principal Secretary (PS) for the Ministry of Health and Population, Dr. Dan Namarika, in the lead in the fight against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. In his post on the social media, Theu challenges that government cannot successfully convince Malawians on COVID-19 pandemci with Namarika […]
UTM Party president Dr Saulos Chilima’s lawyer Bright Theu on Wednesday rounded off cross examining Bob Chimkango, the second witness for President Peter Mutharika who is the first respondent in the case by virtue of being the declared winner of the presidential race in the disputed May 21 Tripartite Elections, by picking holes in his […]
Attorney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale on Thursday objected to the line of questioning by lawyers for the first petitioner Saulos Chilima to witness Mirriam Gwalidi during a friendly re-examination, saying it was soliciting opinion. Gwalidi, who supported Chilima’s petition to have the results nullified and an order for a rerun, had taken to the witness […]
Khato Civils a contractor on the multi-billion kwacha Salima-Lilongwe Water Project is demanding K100 million as legal costs from lawyer Bright Theu after the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal by civil society organisations (CSOs) to replace Malawi Law Society (MLS) in the case on the project with costs. MLS wanted the High Court […]
The High Court in Blantyre on Friday condemned the Youth and Society (YAS) to costs for causing an adjournment in a high profile case of K2.7 billion policegate case and will have to pay the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Pioneer Investments (PI) and the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB). When the case – which also involves President […]
Two civil society organisations – Youth and Society (YAS) and Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) – whose application to replace Malawi Law Society (MLS) in the Salima- Lilongwe Water Project case has been dismissed by Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal will have to cough out an approximately of over K80 million as […]
Forum for National Development (FND) has accused lawyer Bright Theu of personalizing issues to do with the Lake Malawi Water Supply project. Weeks ago, Theu-as lawyer for Malawi Law Society (MLS)- lost a case at Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal in which his client sought to stop the project on the basis that it by-passed […]
There is a notion which as I gather has been endorsed by the High Court to the effect that the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has no power/mandate/competence to order and undertake a “recount of the votes”. Below I advance the view that this notion is wholly misinformed; based on a deliberate circumvention of clear legal […]
For starters Minister of Information Moses Kunkuyu says the country’s laws do not allow any other individuals but the President and Vice President to travel in a convoy on the roads of Malawi. This follows ruling People’s Party secretary general Henry Chibwana order in presence of the Vice President Khumbo Kachali during a development rally […]
A Malawian lawyer has observed that opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) acting president Peter Mutharika shopping spree at Malangalanga and Chinsapo markets in Lilongwe on Saturday where he boarded a commuter minibus, is cheap political gimmick ahead of next year’s polls. Mutharika stormed the public market to appreciate the pinch of the current economic crisis […]
Malawi’s Chief Justice Lovemore Munlo has categorically denied any involvement in an alleged plot to thwart President Mrs. Joyce Banda’s ascendancy to the throne following the death of Bingu wa Mutharika in April. The accusations of Munlo’s involvement took a new twist a few weeks ago when President Banda was quoted by a UK based […]
Lawyers to increase legal fees Just as everybody expected calmness on the legal front following the ease on impasse between the judicial staff and government, justice seekers in the troubled Malawi face new challenge-an impending increase in legal service charges, Nyasa Times can reveal. Malawi courts, prosecutors and lawyers are working around the clock to […]
Malawi’s Chief Justice Lovemore Munlo will have no choice other than recussing himself from two appeal cases where the University Council of Malawi (Unima) Council is asking the Supreme Court to quash two lower court determinations that four fired Chancellor College lecturers be reinstated. The four, associate professor Blessings Chinsinga, Professor Garton Kamchedzera, Franz Amin […]