Wed, 24 Jan 2018 11:52:50 +0000 By BENNIE MUNDANDO THERE is nothing wrong with the composition of the Judicial Complaints Commission (JCC) but an inclusion of the Chief Justice as an ex-official would enhance it further because that office is the pinnacle of the judicial system, lawyer Hobday Kabwe has observed. Commenting on suggestions that appointments to the JCC should exclusively be reserved for former judges, Mr. Kabwe said doing so would be suicidal as the same former judges may be in close association with some of the people they would be facing, thereby bringing impartiality into question. He said while there was nothing wrong with having a mix of former and serving judges to sit on the JCC, leaving such a sensitive institution exclusively in the hands of former judges may be going to extremes as the opposite of the basis of such an argument may also be true. He noted that while proponents […]
