Frank Mbeta may have been Attorney General when the Supreme Court delivered its verdict. But court records suggest the seeds of Government’s costly defeat were sown years earlier, after successive administrations failed to file the submissions needed to defend a High Court victory. When the Supreme Court of Appeal handed victory to the liquidator of […]
Ombudsman Martha Chizuma on Thursday released a report titled ‘Upholding Professionalism,’ an investigation that her Office carried out into allegations of abuse of power and other acts of maladministration in the procedure of procuring and engaging South African (SA) lawyers by the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) for the presidential election appeal case in which former Attorney […]
Former Attroney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale a Senior Councel (SC) has returned to private practice as a lawyer well known for taking up cases involving high-profile individuals in society. Nyasa Times solicited an exclusive interview with Kaphale who has been a lawyer for 29 years and has previously served in the public sector as chief […]
Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) says the sitting Attorney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale is the worst legal advisor to the government and the biggest deterrent to the entrenchment of democracy and good governance in Malawi. HRDC chairperson Gift Trapance has also condemned Kaphale for allegedly choosing to play partisan politics through the advice it supposedly […]
A legal expert has said the Legal Affairs Committee has no powers to write the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to set date for the holding of the presidential election. This was after the Legal Affairs Committee of parliament chairperson Kezzie Msukwa confirmed having written MEC that the election be held on June 23, 2020. But […]
Attorney General (AG) has said the June 23 polling date is not set and has advised the Parliamentary Legal Affairs Committee that the resolutions the committee made after their consultations with stakeholders, including Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC), were errors of law, saying it is the whole National Assembly that can decide on voting day not […]
Youth and Society (YAS) executive director, Charles Kajoloweka, has said he is delighted with the launch of investigations into the suspected professional misconduct by Attorney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale and the illegal payment he allegedly received from Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC). YAS, a Mzuzu-based human rights and governance watchdog, had initially written the Office of […]
Following a request by Mzuzu-based civil society organisation Youth and Society (YAS), the Ombudsman has launched investigations into Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) procurement of legal services of South Africa-based law firm—Mboweni Maluleke Inc Attorneys—to defend the case in the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal at a contract sum of $788 500 (about K600 million). YAS […]
Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee has summoned the embattled Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah and Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale on Thursday over a new date for the fresh presidential elections. MEC proposed the new vote should take place on July 2 2020 but also changed tune that Parliament should consider moving it to June 23 2020. Legal […]
It is no longer a pouring rain, but hailstorm for the embattled Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC). Fresh from the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) where it was slapped with a K9 billion bill in legal costs, the electoral body faces another legal battle over the payments it made to Attorney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale and […]
Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale has withdrawn an application to the High Court to challenge an injunction obtained by Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) stopping implementation of a three-week national lockdown to curb coronavirus. Government through lawyer Neverson Chisiza from Attorney General Chambers on Wednesday filed a sworn statement with the High Court of Malawi Lilongwe […]
Malawi’s former Attorney General (AG) Ralph Kasambara, SC, has censored incumbent government chieg legal advisor Kalekeni Kaphale for taking a political stand in his comment on the injunction Judge Kenyatta Nyirenda granted to the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) stopping government from implementing a 21-day lockdown. Kaphale is quoted that if coronavirus diseases (COVID-19) pandemic […]
Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale has said High Court judge Kenyatta Nyirenda who on Friday granted a temporary injunction against the government’s 21-day coronavirus lockdown period pending a judicial review within seven days, did not issue an order against the virus to stop spreading. Kaphale said government is yet to make a decision on whether to […]
Mzuzu-based civil society organisation, Youth and Society (YAS), has penned Ombudsman Martha Chizuma to probe the conduct of the Attorney General (A-G) Kalekeni Kaphale in relation to the retention of South African lawyers and the attendant expense on public money, as well as payments deemed “illegal” he received from the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) for […]
Youth and Society (YAS), a civil society organisation, has penned Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale to querry the hiring of foreign lawyers for the election appeal case at a staggering $788 000 (about K600 million) million on public funds and why he is still acting for Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) indirectly through procurement of legal services. In its […]
Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale has apologized unreservedly in Court on behalf of Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah who in a sworn statement called a Constitutional Court sanctioned parliamentary Public Appointments Committee (PAC) hearing on the competency of the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) as a sham inquiry. Kaphale, who never drafter the sworn statement, […]
A South Africa-based Malawian law professor Danwood Chirwa has faulted Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale for preparing the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) appeal submissions to the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal challenging the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) judgement that nullified the May 21 2019 presidential election. University of Cape Town legal expert says there are some […]
Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale dismissed an asserting by a journalist of being shocked with the the Constitutional Court ruling nullifying the May 21 2019 presidential election, saying “nothing shocks a lawyer.” Kaphale was granting an interview to reporters soon after the soon after the judgement as he was asked if the ruling by the five-judge […]