President appoints new court judges

President Dr Lazarus Chakwera has appointed 9 new judges of supreme and High courts.

According to government press release four are Supreme Court judges while 5 High court judges.

Among the Supreme Court judges 2 are Healey Potani and Ivy Kamanga who presided over presidential elections case.

One of the new judges of High court is Agnes Patemba the registrar of Supreme and High courts.

In his state of national address when he was opening the 2020 to 2021 parliament meeting Chakwera promised to appoint new judges to speed up the cases which were delaying due to shortage of judges.

Patemba appealed to Minister of parliament to increase budget allocated to judiciary because it was not enough considering the expected new judges