Wed, 14 Dec 2016 11:02:09 +0000 FRED M’membe says there is no contempt on non-compliance to a liquidator’s demands because Lewis Mosho is not a court. This is in response to a contempt application filed by the Post Newspapers Provisional Liquidator against Mr M’membe, Nchito and Nchito Advocates and general manager Rowena Zulu before the Lusaka High Court. Mr M’membe’s lawyer Nchima Nchito told Mr Justice Sunday Nkonde that there was no court order to the surrender of assets to the liquidator, hence no obligation under the law to demand for contempt. He said there was no penal notice on the court order of appointment of a Provisional Liquidator to direct the consequences of the failure to obey him. Mr Nchito said the court was therefore bound to follow commission applicable before committal, because it could not commit to prison the contemnor in a case where there was no penal notice. He charged that the […]
