Tue, 10 Jan 2017 14:27:42 +0000 By CHIKUMBI KATEBE THE creation of a criminal division in the High Court will help reduce the huge backlog of cases yet to be heard, as well as expedite the disposal of cases with minimum delays, says Law Association of Zambia vice-president Eddie Mweetwa. This was after Minister of Justice Given Lubinda announced yesterday that among various Judicial Reforms being undertaken by the Government was the establishment of a criminal division of the High Court to handle criminal cases. Mr Mweetwa said it was commendable that the judiciary was enhancing new effective methods of dispensing justice through establishment of such separate divisions specifically to deal with the backlog of criminal cases. “It is obviously welcome news to us as LAZ because what that will do is to make a provision of a division of the court to specifically dedicated to dealing with criminal cases. “And that hopefully will […]
LAZ welcomes creation of criminal division at High Court
