Court joins LAZ to Sangwa’s petition on President’s power to prescribe judges’ salaries

THE Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) has been joined as an interested party to a matter in which Constitutional Lawyer John Sangwa petitioned the Constitutional Court seeking a declaration that the authority vested in the President to prescribe the emolument of the Judges is ultra vires Articles 122(3) and 123 (1) of the Constitution.. According to a consent order by joinder of parties filed in the Constitutional Court and signed by Justice Martin Musaluke, it was directed that LAZ be joined to the proceedings as an interested party. “By consent of the parties, it is hereby ordered and directed as follows: that the intended interested party be joined to this cause as interested party; that the originating process be amended…...