President Arthur Peter Mutharika – APM- has promoted Attorney General Kelekeni Kaphale, Minister of Justice Samuel Tembenu and others to the rank and honour of Senior Counsel (SC). The title is conferred on any lawyer who has rendered exemplary service to the legal and public service for over 15 years and is of high professional […]
Comesa Court sitting in Lusaka, Zambia, has thrown out an application by the Malawi Government which asked the court to drop a case where Malawi Mobile Limited (MML) a mobile phone operator licensed in April 2002 but faced political hurdles against rolling out its services in the country is challenging illegal termination of the contract. […]
Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale has argued that Comesa court lacks jurisdiction on the matter in which Malawi Mobile Limited (MML) a mobile phone operator licensed in April 2002 but faced political hurdles against rolling out its services in the country has lodged an appeal at the Comesa Court, challenging the Supreme Court of Malawi’s decision […]
Attorney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale has said homosexuals will not be discriminated against when accessing healthcare despite the existing anti-gay law. Kaphale said this in defending government’s move to request $388 888 (about K221 million) from Global Fund for HIV and Aids interventions targeting 40 000 men who have sex with fellow men. Lesbians – […]
Vocal human rights activist Billy Mayaya has hit at Attorney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale on the way he is acting on issues surrounding the position of United Democratic Front (UDF) MPs in Parliament in the face of Section 65 anti-defection law for moving to government benches. Kaphale wrote Speaker Richard Msowoya expressing that he already […]
Attorney General, Kalekeni Kaphale has advised Speaker of parliament Richard Msowoya not to invoke the anti-defection law Section 65 on United Democratic Front (UDF) lawmakers who relocated from opposition to government benches, saying they have not breached the said law. Speaker last week petitioned UDF members of parliament on his agitation to declare their seats […]
Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale has rejected a claim from former minister of Finance Friday Jumbe of about K584 million as compensation for ‘unfair dismissal’ from the yet-to-be-established Malawi Development Bank. Jumbe was fired from the post of chief executive officer (CEO) at the bank and is seeking damages for ‘unfair dismissal’. Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe […]
High Court judge Kenyatta Nyirenda has ruled in favour of government to proceed with the controversial sale of State-owned Malawi Savings Bank (MSB) but the MSB employees, through their lawyer Lusungu Gondwe, have said they will consider an appeal against the ruling. MSB employees obtained an injuction stopping Public Private Partnership Commission (PPPC)to complete the […]
The three companies controlling five of the six oil and gas exploration blocks – Rak Gas, Pacific Oil and Hamra Oil Holdings Limited -are controlled by one group designed to get a Lions share of the oil blocks by using any trick in or outside the book, Attorney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale has noted in […]
Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale has saved Malawi government from paying dK55.4 billion (about US$132 million) damages Malawi Mobile Limited (MML), the country’s third cellular phone service provider licenced in April 2002, demanded in court as compensation for loss of revenue for unlawful cancelling of contract. High Court Commercial Division ruling by Judge Frank Kapanda on April 20 […]
Supreme Court of Appeal Judge, Rezine Mzikamanda has asked senior lawyers in the country to be exemplary and to always avoid denting the “good image” associated with their noble profession. Mzikamanda made the remarks Friday at Mount Soche hotel in Blantyre where the University of Malawi (Unima) with financial assistance from National Bank of Malawi (NBM) awarded 10 […]
Malawi Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale has stressed that he is not in the wrong after the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), reportedly sought to find out if any abuse of office after the K150 million government paid to a client of a law firm he previously owned. “My conscience is clear. I have not exerted any influence […]
Judiciary workers in Malawi have defied government calls to resume work despite the recent government threat to seal off the courts and withhold salaries for striking staff members if they refuse to end the strike. Government chief secretary George Mkondiwa directed that the striking workers should resume work on January 5 or else the government […]
Malawi government has been urged to rethink its decision to seal the Judiciary arm of government if support staff and judges and magistrates fail to resume work by Monday January 5, 2015. The Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) in a letter dated December 19 2014 addressed to the Registrar of the High Court […]
Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale’s formal legal advice on the legality of the demands by the judiciary’s personnel pertaining to their remuneration and benefits and of the strike in general is legally flawed and misleading. In political terms, it amounts to giving Mutharika a rope with which to hang himself. The judiciary comprises the support staff […]
Background There is currently an on-going discussion between judicial officers and support staff in the Judiciary on a number of issues relating to the terms and conditions of service of both categories of staff. There does not appear to be any agreement on the issues under discussion with the effect that the support staff have […]
President Peter Mutharika has been asked by the Malawi Law Society to help in speedily resolving the spate of strikes which are paralysing public and justice delivery services in the country. The appeal was made by Law Society’s executive committee members when they met the Head of State, in camera, on Wednesday for over an […]
Malawian professor of law, Danwood Chirwa, has faulted Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale over alleged undue interference with the work of the investigative and prosecutorial agencies in relation to cashgate cases. Kaphale has been facing criticism in some sections of the media and social media on allegations that he was interfering with Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) in […]