Mon, 30 Jan 2017 12:22:05 +0000 Fred M’membe what happens next? Dear Editor, There is, it would appear, nothing quite like a High Court Judge-in-Charge to capture the attention of a controversy obsessed public. Indeed few months on from the start of the liquidation of the Post Newspaper the media spotlight on this case has never been as intense. Yet it is not the contempt of court proceedings against Fred M’membe as former managing director of the Post Newspaper in liquidation for undermining the authority of the court by refusing to handover a catalogue of assets of the company when requested that have captured the public’s imagination in recent days. But rather the complaint of gross misconduct that’s been lodged against Lusaka High Court Judge-in-Charge Mwiinde Siavwapa for allegedly giving legal advice to Fred M’membe, the owner of the Post Newspaper (in liquidation), from the bench in a matter that is before another judge in […]
