Wed, 01 Mar 2017 13:12:48 +0000 BY CHIKUMBI KATEBE FRED M’membe has been allowed to proceed with his suit against Investrust Bank, an institution he owed huge sums of money because the Court of Appeals has no jurisdiction to stay the matter commenced in another court. This is in a matter in which five former Post Newspaper in Liquidation employees and Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) applied for the stay of proceedings in a matter in which Mr M’membe has sued the Bank over properties claimed as security for the loan he had acquired. The petitioners submitted that the earlier case over the winding up of the Post Newspaper and the latter in which former newspaper boss has sued the Bank should not be consolidated as the main matter which “will address all issues in controversy among the parties in both causes, as envisaged by section 13 of the High Court Act”. Court of Appeals […]
