THE Supreme Court has set July 17 this year as the appeal date of a case involving three judges who were granted a stay over their suspension and setting up of a tribunal to probe their alleged professional misconduct.
The Supreme Court would on the same day also hear another appeal case of JCN Holdings Limited, Post Newspapers Limited and Mutembo Nchito in which they were ordered to pay back K14 billion owed to the Development Bank of Zambia (DBZ).
This is according to a search conducted at the Supreme Court in Lusaka yesterday.
A panel of Supreme Court judges would also pass judgment on the same day in a petition appeal of MMD Malambo Member of Parliament Maxwell Mwale, whose seat was nullified by the High Court.
In the case of the three judges, the State appealed against Lusaka High Court Judge Fulgence Chisanga’s decision to sustain a stay of proceedings of a tribunal appointed by President Michael Sata to probe alleged misconduct of Supreme Court Judge Philip Musonda.
Others are High Court judges Charles Kajimanga and Nigel Mutuna, who had resumed their duties following a stay.
Ms Justice Chisanga’s ruling emanated from an application filed on May 17, 2012 by Solicitor General Musa Mwenye for her to set aside an ex-parte order granted to the three judges.
In dismissing the State’s application recently, the judge did not agree with Mr Mwenye that investigations to be conducted by the tribunal ought not to be stayed simply because the process was investigative in nature.
[Times of Zambia]