By Paramount Chief chitimukulu Henry Kanyanta SosalaMARTIN Luther King said: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”My heart and mind throb and swell in great anguish over the deplorable state of the legal system in our country and I have therefore not written on this important national issue with kid gloves, but to tell it like it is – the truth as seen through my own spectacles and nothing but the truth.The sequence of the development of our country’s laws follows that the Members of Parliament (sometimes referred to as law-makers) enact laws which are interpreted by the courts and enforced by the police.But the most unfortunate dilemma has happened where judges and lawyers have lamentably failed to interpret the Constitution and have thrown the entire nation into the worst type of uncertainty. We have embarrassing situations where High Court and Constitutional Judges are making 180 degree u-turns […]
THE COLLAPSE OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM IN ZAMBIA
