The Malawi Law Society (MLS) has challenged President Peter Mutharika’s directive to postpone the Fourth Meeting of Parliament, saying the President has no constitutional power to issue it and urging Speaker of the National Assembly Sameer Suleman to reconsider. In a press statement issued on October 30, 2026, MLS Chairperson Davis Mthakati Njobvu said Section […]
Legal experts say President Peter Mutharika’s three-week stay in South Africa does not violate the Constitution, although some have raised questions about public communication over the trip. It is his fifth such trip since returning to office after the September 2025 election and, in the absence of any fuller explanation, speculation has flourished. Yet before […]
There is a particular kind of appeal that judges rarely have to make — not for a verdict to be respected, but for the institution itself to be believed in. That was, in essence, the request Chief Justice Rizine Mzikamanda put to Malawians in Blantyre on Friday, urging the public to keep faith with the […]
Malawi’s legal community will come together in Lilongwe on Saturday 26 September for the annual Red Mass, a liturgy that has long marked the opening of the legal year in Catholic tradition and drawn the judiciary, the bar and the Church into a shared act of prayer for the administration of justice. The Mass, to […]
The Malawi Law Society has finally weighed in on the constitutional storm engulfing Parliament, announcing it will join the judicial review case over a court injunction that has blocked Speaker Sameer Suleiman from forming twelve joint ad-hoc committees tasked with probing government operations. MLS President Davis Njobvu revealed the society’s decision to step into the […]
A retired judge has issued a stark warning that Malawi could be heading for an explosive constitutional showdown between Parliament and the Presidency, as the Malawi Law Society remains conspicuously silent on the growing crisis. Justice Dunstain Mwaungulu, a respected legal and political commentator, says the escalating dispute over the National Assembly’s power to set […]
A suspended lawyer’s brazen bid to keep practising law behind his own back has spectacularly blown up in his face — after a High Court judge caught him red-handed forging a colleague’s signature to sneak through an injunction. Innocent Tepeka, already barred from practising by the Malawi Law Society, thought he could pull a fast […]
There is a particular kind of story that circulates on Malawian social media every so often — not a political scandal, not an economic crisis, but something smaller and, in its way, more affecting: an ordinary person’s account of an extraordinary personal turning point. This week, that story belongs to Ian Nankhuni, whose Facebook post […]
Four Catholic priests trained as lawyers have been formally admitted to Malawi’s Bar, a development that grants them the right to practise civil law in the country’s courts and marks a further extension of the Church’s institutional reach into public and legal affairs. Chief Justice Rizine Mzikamanda presided over the admission ceremony, authorising Fr John […]
The Malawi Law Society’s decision to publicly challenge Director of Public Prosecutions Fostino Maele over the discontinuation of a string of high-profile criminal cases deserves the full attention of every Malawian who still believes in the rule of law. To be clear, the Society is right to acknowledge upfront that the Constitution grants the DPP […]
The Malawi Law Society (MLS) has publicly challenged the country’s Director of Public Prosecutions, Fostino Maele, accusing him of discontinuing a string of high-profile criminal cases in a pattern the legal body says threatens to erode public confidence in Malawi’s justice system. In a pointed statement marking Malawi’s 62nd independence anniversary, the Society said it […]
Malawi Law Society has faulted President Lazarus Chakwera for ordering public officials suspecting of squandering the Covid-19 funds be suspended without pay and backs the legal advice given by Attorney General (AG) Chikosa Silungwe to the Department of Human Resource Management and Development and the Accountant General’s office that the withholding of pay for public […]
Private practice lawyer Charles Mpaka has been elected new president of Malawi Law Society (MLS) after defeating Tadala Chimkwezule by 265 votes against 234 during elections conducted on Tuesday in High Court registries across the country. Mpaka replaced Burton Chidongondo Mhango at the helm of the Malawi Law Society for the next two years. Mhango […]
The High Court in Lilongwe has ruled that former President Peter Mutharika and f former Chief Secretary to Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) Lloyd Muhara should pay from their pockets K69.5 million legal costs incurred in a case the two were found guilty of forcing Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda go on retirement. The […]
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 […]
Private practice lawyer Oscar Asima Taulo and his estranged client, Moses Michael Mwalabu, have resolved their differences, with the counsel committing to withdraw the lawsuit he commenced against Mwalabu, Nyasa Times has learnt. The former Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) student Mwalabu was accusing Taulo of swindling him damages the court awarded after winning […]
Former Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) student, Moses Michael Mwalabu, and private practice lawyer, Oscar Asima Taulo, are on each other’s necks over allegations the latter has levelled against Taulo. Mwalabu – a proud former street kid – is accusing Taulo of swindling him over K3 million in legal costs he was […]
The Malawi Law Society (MLS) has faulted quasi-religious body Public Affairs Committee (PAC) for their proposal that the State should discontinue the protracted prosecution of former president Bakili Muluzi on corruption charges relating to K1.7 billion, saying it is tantamount to elevating politics over rule of law. PAC raised the issue in its statement assessing […]