Convicted former minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Ralph Kasambara and two others are expected to hear on Wednesday if the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal has granted them bail pending an appeal against their conviction. Kasambara alongside MacDonald Kumwembe and Pika Manondo were convicted after being found guilty of conspiracy and attempt to murder […]
The Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal will on March 14 deliver its ruling on a bail application pending appeal filed by former minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Ralph Kasambara and his two co-convicts. Registrar for the High Court and Supreme Court of Appeal, Agness Patemba has confirmed about the set date. Patemba said Malawi Supreme Court […]
Ministry of Health and Population has been advised to always “give attention to detail” to ensure a situation where patients at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) are having to endure additional pain following the breaking down of the elevator does not arise. Adaily newspaper, The Nation, reported that patience are forced to move up and down the […]
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mary Kachale in her submission opposing the bail application filed by former minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Ralph Kasambara and his two co-convicts tackled the issue of call-logs, saying it was part of the totality evidence. Kasambara and his co-convicts—Pika Manondo and McDonald Kumwembe—applied for bail pending an appeal […]
Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal Judge Dustan Mwaungulu has reserved his ruling to a later date in October on the bail bid for convicted former minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Ralph Kasambara and two others. Mwaungulu on Tursday heard arguments from the State and Defence and both legal teams have been given another 14 […]
Former budget director Paul Mphwiyo has accused the Director of Public Prosecutions Mary Kachale of being “an agent of injustice’, calling for investigations on the conduct of the top prosecutor by the Malawi Law Society. Mphwiyo, who has told the High Court that State prosecutors pressured him to sign affidavits implicating convicts of attempted murder […]
Former Malawi Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo, whose shooting on 13 September 2013 led to the unravelling of the systematic looting of millions of government money dubbed ‘cashgate’, has told the High Court that state prosecutors pressured him to sign affidavits implicating convicts of attempted murder of his life including former justice minister Ralph Kasambara. When […]
Supreme Court of Appeal Judge, Justice Dunstain Mwaungulu has refused to go down without a fight, challenging Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Mary Kachale’s demands to recuse himself from bail application case involving convicted former Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Raphael Kasambara and two others. Kachale on Wednesday morning made […]
Bail application hearing for convicted former Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Raphael Kasambara failed to commence on Monday after the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Mary Kachale accused Supreme Court of Appeal Judge, Justice Dunstain Mwaungulu of biasness. Kasambara currently serving a 13-year sentence at Zomba Central Prison for conspiring to murder former […]
Supreme Court of Appeal Judge Dunsatin Mwaungulu is to decide whether former attorney general and minister of justice and constitutional affairs Raphael Kasambara, should be released from custody at a hearing next week Monday. Judiciary spokesman Mlenga Mvula confirmed Justice Mwaungulu will hear the bail application on Monday pending appeal of his conviction and sentence. Kasambara […]
Former Minister of Justice Ralph Kasambara will have to wait longer for his appeal case on his conspiracy to murder conviction as the judiciary says it is still looking for some documents. Kasambara, a high flying lawyer was sentenced to five years in jail for plottig to kill Paul Mphwiyo, the former director of Budget […]
The family of former Attorney General Ralph Kasambara has expressed anger at what it calls a “false and malicious” news article currently circulating on Facebook and online publications linked to the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), alleging that Kasambara has condemned the recent ruling by Justice John Chirwa to suspend Minister of Agriculture George Chaponda […]
The High Court in Lilongwe has denied bail to convicted former Justice minister and attorney general Ralphael Kasambara. Judiciary spokesperson Mlenga Mvula confirmed Judge Michael Mtambo threw out the application for Kasambara and two of his jail mates in the conspiracy to murder case because there are no special grounds to warrant bail pending appeal […]
It was chilling, wasn’t it, when it finally sank that Justice Michael Mtambo had found Ralph Kasambara, Pika Manondo and McDonald Kumwembe guilty of conspiracy to murder one Paul Mphwiyo mainly on the basis of call logs and cellphone activity. In many ways, what Justice Mtambo had done was to ignore an earlier ruling by […]
Convicted lawyer Raphael Kasambara is missing on the list of Malawi Law Society (MLS) licensed legal practitioners but his close associates have brushed off claims that his not being included on the list is because of his conviction, saying he did not apply for membership renewal. The former Justice Minister is not among the 377 […]
Despite a criminal conviction, former minister of justice Ralph Kasambara ( Senior Counsel) has not been struck off and remains on the roll of the accredited legal practitioners in the country, Malawi Law Soicety(MLS) has said. According to the MLS Secretary General Khumbo Soko, Kasambara will still be the country’s lawyer until the Attorney General […]
South Africa-based Malawian professor of law, Danwood Chirwa, has found that the sentence of 13 years imprisonment with hard labour (IHL) handed down to former justice minister Ralph Kasambara for conspiring to murder former budget director Paul Mphwiyo is ”manifestly excessive. The maximum sentence for conspiracy to murder is 14 years imprisonment with hard labour. But […]
High Court Judge Micheal Mtambo had a disbelief in former Justice and Constitutional Affairs minister, Raphael Kasambara’s claim of remorse for his role in the attempted murder of ex- Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo. During sentencing oral submissions on Tuesday, lawyer Modeccai Msiska, SC, told the court that Kasambara was remorseful for his actions . “Our client […]