THE Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) has called for the complete autonomy of the Judiciary and has appealed to government to fully implement the constitutional provisions on Financial Independence and make third arm of government self-accounting.And LAZ has welcomed Chief Justice Mumba Malila’s instructions to High Court Judges to begin delivering their judgements and ruling within 108 days and 90 days respectively or would have to explain their failure to comply with the order by way of giving reasons Lungisani Zulu, the LAZ president has said the Association was aware of an array of challenges such as lack of financial autonomy facing the Judiciary in its discharge of its mandates.Mr Zulu said the Judiciary would only be able to fully discharge its mandate if it was financially autonomous and that it was therefore important that government should implement the constitutional provisions on Financial Independence of the Judiciary.Mr Zulu said Article 123 of the Constitution provided that […]
JUDICIARY MUST BE INDEPENDENT
