ConCourt has discretion to award costs, AG insists

ATTORNEY General Likando Kalaluka has submitted that the Constitutional Court has the discretion to award costs as it guards against ‘busy bodies’ from commencing unnecessary, frivolous actions. This is a matter in which Constitutional Lawyer John Sangwa petitioned the ConCourt seeking an order to quash Section 30 of the Constitutional Court Act which provides that the said court shall have discretion to award costs in proceedings. This was after the Attorney General and Lewis Mosho separately wrote to Sangwa demanding a total sum of K9,500,000 from him as costs following the Constitutional Court’s decision to dismiss his petition against ECZ and others. But according to the answer filed, Tuesday, Kalaluka stated that he will aver at trial that even though…...