Tag: Zambia

Joint statement: attacks on the rule of law, judicial independence and access to justice in Zambia

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Seven international and regional legal bodies set out a documented sequence surrounding Zambia’s August 13 general election. On August 24, the penultimate day of the constitutional deadline for filing a presidential election petition, the Constitutional Court, High Court, Supreme Court and other courts across the country were closed and cordoned off by police and military …

Vondoepp (2005), “The Problem of Judicial Control in Africa’s Neopatrimonial Democracies: Malawi and Zambia.”

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Peter Vondoepp, “The Problem of Judicial Control in Africa’s Neopatrimonial Democracies: Malawi and Zambia.” Political Science Quarterly, vol 120, no. 2 (2005): 275–301. Summary: Judges’ actions underscore a key feature of political life in Malawi and Zambia since the onset of their respective periods of democratic rule. In both countries, judiciaries have displayed a striking tendency …