Today marks exactly one year after the Constitutional Court nullified the 2019 elections citing massive irregularities and fraud. The ruling meant that the election of president Peter Mutharika had been set aside and that a fresh election would follow which was eventually won by President Lazarus Chakwera who led the Tonse Alliance with Saulos Chilima […]
Two legal teams that represented President Lazarus Chakwera and Vice-President Saulos Chilima in the May 21 2019 presidential election nullification petition have been paid the legal fees by government after the courts ordered they be paid costs in billions; Treasury has confirmed. Chakwera had eight lawyers while Chilima had four, and the 12 initially claimed […]
Five judges of the High Court of Malawi, who presided over the landmark May 21 2019 presidential election nullification petition, and Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Justice Chifundo Kachale, who is also a High Court judge, have been jointly named Malawi flagship online news platform, Nyasa Times 2020 “Person of the Year” on Friday. The five-judge […]
Malawi is named “Country of the Year” by the British magazine The Economist or “reviving democracy in an authoritarian region”, citing the nullification of the 2019 presidential election results that were marred by irregularities. Every year, the London-based influential publication which circulates in over 80 countries globally nominates the states that succeeded in making the greatest progress […]
Lawyers representing business mogul Thom Mpinganjira have asked the High Court in Blantyre to free their client arguing that prosecution failed to prove their case. During oral submissions Wednesday morning Mpinganjira’s lawyer Patrice Nkhono said the case should be dismissed for lack of evidence. Nkhono was also surprised with the State ‘strange’ request to presiding […]
The High Court has thrown out the petition by some former legislators who thought they, too, had a case after the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) nullified the May 21 2019 presidential election result. Following the February 3 ConCourt landmark ruling, the group comprising mostly former legislators and other candidates who lost the election, went to court […]
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has finished its prosecution case in a matter which business mogul Thom Mpinganjira is accused of allegedly attempting to bribe five High Court judges sitting as the Constitutional Court in the May 21, 2019 presidential election nullification petition case and with no evidence tendered of bribes exchanging hands, the defence has […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has expressed open disappointment with the director of Public Prosecutions office for its failure to prosecute Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) presiding officers over the messy 2019 presidential election which was nullified. Speaking at Kamuzu palace in Lilongwe, Chakwera said the High Court and Supreme Court determined that hundreds of presiding officers broke […]
Several UN member States took turns to congratulate Malawi for a peaceful, democratic transition as positive examples to the African continent at the 36th Session of UN Human Rights Council’s organized Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva, Switzerland on Tuesday. Malawi appeared before the UN Human Rights Council to present it’s progress in terms of […]
Social media influencers have welcomed the High Court decision to slash payment bills for opposition lawyers from K7 billion to K4 billion in the election case. The lawyers had initially asked the court to order the state pay the lawyers K7 billion after the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) lost the case to UTM’s Saulos Chilima […]
Of one of the witnesses in the alleged bribery case against business mogul Thomson Mpinganjira., High Court Judge Mike Tembo has detailed the involvement of former president Peter Mutharika’s lead lawyer Frank Mbeta and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) spokesperson Brown Mpinganjira in the bribery case. Tembo, who was among five judges who presided over the […]
Minister for Africa for the United Kingdom (UK) James Duddridge has said judges of the High Court of Malawi, who presided over the landmark May 21 2019 presidential election nullification petition, were right winners of a prestigious international award for overturning presidential elections for rigging. The five-judge panel of the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) have won […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has said it will start parading prosecution witnesses in a case in which business tycoon Thom Mpinganjira is being accused of attempting to bribe Constitutional Court judges. ACB director Reyneck Matemba said this after the High Court dismissed a fresh application by lawyers for Mpinganjira, led by Patrice Nkhono, who were seeking another […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) commissioner Arthur Nanthulu has said although the 2020 Fresh Presidential elections were fair and credible, elections stakeholders should find ways of improving future elections. He was speaking at the opening of a review meeting in Liwonde, Machinga and MEC is reviewing the June 23 Fresh Presidential election in six districts in […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has hailed the impact of elections review meetings being held across the country as an eye opener and providing room for improvement. MEC chairperson Justice Chifundo Kachale said the meetings offer an aerial view of elections since all districts are given a chance to present their challenges. He said this […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) paid its legal team in the May 21 2019 presidential elections nullification case K400 million but neither the former Attorney general Kalekeni Kaphale nor South African lawyers engaged for the appeal were not awarded the legal fees, according to records. This is disclosed in a letter dated August 26 2020 addressed […]
The court directive–ordering the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to pay MK7 billion to two legal teams that represented President Lazarus Chakwera and Vice-President Saulos Chilima in the May 21 2019 presidential election nullification petition to get a collective K7 billion fees–continues to attract public ridicule with the latest to express their misgivings being a grouping […]
Tonse alliance lawyers will be smiling to the bank again with a tax payer K300 million as legal fees for representing President Lazarus Chakwera and vice president Saulos Chilima in the landmark presidential election case in the Supreme Court of Appeal. This comes barely days after High Court registrar Agnes Patemba awarded the lawyers a […]