The government has suffered another setback in its bid to relocate the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) headquarters from Lilongwe to Blantyre, after High Court Judge Kenyatta Nyirenda dismissed an application to lift a stay on judicial review proceedings. The dismissal blocks the State from immediately seeking to have the judicial review case thrown out – […]
Probably whoever said ‘imfa siithawika’ (death is inescapable) did not lie! Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Commissioners at the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Commissioners, Linda Kunje and Dr. Jean Mathanga, might have successfully challenged rescission of their appointment at the High Court, but they have fallen short of maintaining their seats they heard dear to. On […]
The High Court in Lilongwe has reserved a ruling on application by prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife, Mary to stop the Malawi police from arresting them. This was an Interpartes injunction application. Justice Kenyatta Nyirenda did not provide a specific date on when the ruling will be made, according to one of the lawyers […]
High Court Judge Kenyatta Nyirenda on Tuesday attended a funeral of Nyasa Times journalist Elijah Phimbi and also paid tribute with local people as journalist’s remains were interred at Chinsapo Cemetery in Lilongwe. Justice Nyirenda sat with mourners throughout the funeral ceremony and while others could not make it to the graveyard, he went and […]
The High Court in Lilongwe has removed the Lilongwe Water Board (LWB) out of the Area 18 Water contamination case. However, the court has maintained the case against Lilongwe City Council (LCC) and the Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC). Judge Kenyatta Nyirenda on Monday made the ruling that LWB is off the case, this means that […]
The High Court in Lilongwe has halted the immediate deportation of 67 Indian workers at Salima Sugar company whom the government said had no work permit. Judge Kenyatta Nyirenda granted the stay for judicial review on their case. This means the court will hear the whole case before making its determination on whether they should […]
High Court judge Kenyatta Nyirenda on Monday granted leave for opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopeful Lazarus Chakwera to move for judicial review against the appointment of Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) commissioners Linda Kunje and Jean Mathanga. President Peter Mutharika retained the two commissioners from a MEC team which Parliament deemed incompetent in the […]
High Court judge Charles Mkandawile has granted an injunction and leave for judicial review restraining President Peter Mutharika and Secretary to Government Lloyd Muhara from effecting their decision to send Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda on early retirement based on perceived accumulated leave days. The injunction was obtained by Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) in partnership with […]
Judge Kenyatta Nyirenda’s father, a member of Malawi’s liberation movement and a committed pan-Africanist, named his son after Kenya’s first president, Jomo Kenyatta. He could not have imagined that one day, his son would go on to help to draft Kenya’s current Constitution. But Nyirenda’s impact in his own country, Malawi, has been even more […]
The High Court has prolonged an order barring the government from implementing a 21-day lockdown applied by Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) despite a rise in the number of coronavirus cases. In his determination, Judge Kenyatta Nyirenda has ruled that the injunction against the lockdown be maintained until government had put the necessary socio-economic protection […]
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 […]
Minister of Information, Civic Education and Communications Technology Mark Botomani has said government is ‘dismayed’ by High Court Judge Kenyatta Nyirenda’s decision to issue a court order blocking coronavirus nationwide lockdown for at least seven days. All non-essential businesses and services were to cease operating during the lockdown, which was due to end on May […]
High Court Judge Kenyatta Nyirenda who was recently accused by Malaiw government of undermining coronavirus efforts has on Friday granted Human rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) an injunction against pending 21-day lockdown. HRDC Chairperson Gift Trapence has confirmed to Nyasa Times that the judge has also ordred an inter-party hearing within seven days for judicial review. […]
High Court judge Zione Ntaba, has denied Chancellor College law students’ application for judicial review that they were demanding for an order to quash President Peter Mutharika’s directives issued on March 20 2020 that led to the decision to close down Chancellor College. The leave for judicial review from the four students, among others issues, […]
Malawi government has exercised its own prerogative – to attack High Court judge Kenyatta Nyirenda – who faulted President Peter Mutharika for making a declaration of a national disaster over the coronavirus without citing the law under which the declaration was being made. Ministry of Justice in a statement issued by its spokesperson Pilirani Masanjala has […]
A High Court judge Kenyatta Nyirenda who recently came under fire from government when he ordered the Department of Immigration not to deport four Chinese nationals upon their arrival in the country amidst the highly contagious Covid-19 has made a stinging ruling that questions archaic laws on the declaration of State of Disaster. President Peter […]
Covidiot is a combination of two words, COVID-19 (aka coronavirus) and ‘idiot’. The Urban Dictionary has coined the term “covidiot” to describe those who go against public health advice amid the coronavirus outbreak and High Court Judge Kenyatta Nyirenda’s decision to issue a court order that led to the release of four Chinese nationals who had […]
High Court judge Kenyatta Nyirenda has put the judiciary on spot on how questionable justice delivery is delivered in the country following his order that the Department of Immigration should not deport four Chinese nationals upon their arrival in the country amidst fear of the spread of the deadly Coronavirus. But the Department of Immigration has […]