Thu, 11 Jan 2018 10:38:55 +0000 By CHINTU MALAMBO A LAW firm has sued former MMD Solwezi East Member of Parliament Richard Taima for allegedly failing to settle over K400, 000 owed to the firm during an election petition in which he was being challenged after his election as MP in 2011. In a statement of claim filed in the Lusaka High Court, Central Chambers law firm claimed that around September 2011, Mr Taima instructed the firm to represent him in an election petition. Central Chambers indicated that upon receiving the said instruction from Mr Mr Taima, who is also a businessman, the parties proceeded to agree on the fee scale to be applied and that he was represented until the matter was disposed of in the High Court and Supreme Court on Aril 14, 2014. The firm claimed that Mr Taima was billed K450, 000 of which K70, 000. 00 was towards the High […]
