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June 2023
Munyoro v Munyoro (2021/HPF/D 130) [2023] ZMHC 103 (29 June 2023)
Court orders valuation/sale and unequal apportionment of matrimonial assets, awards mortgaged Salama Park to petitioner and preserves pensions.
  • Matrimonial property — meaning of family property — contributions in money, material or in kind — property adjustment under Matrimonial Causes Act; Deed of Gift and effect on family property; valuation and sale of jointly acquired property; treatment of pension, gratuity, NAPSA and shares; apportionment of movable assets and liabilities.
29 June 2023
The People v Mulenga and Sikaonga (HP/87/2023) [2023] ZMHC 7 (29 June 2023)
Court rejected remorse and youth mitigation, imposing life and lengthy concurrent and consecutive sentences for sustained abduction and rape.
  • Sentencing hearing; remorse and genuine contrition; youth and drug history as mitigation; gender-based violence; seriousness of prolonged abduction and continuous rape; concurrent vs consecutive sentences; imposition of life imprisonment for aggravated rape.
29 June 2023
Law Association of Zambia v Malunga (2021/HP/1317) [2023] ZMHC 8 (16 June 2023)
A legal practitioner’s failure to account client funds justified striking off; later reconciliation did not prevent discipline.
  • Legal practitioners — Professional misconduct — Failure to account for client funds — Service and notice to practitioner — Substituted service — Reconciliation not a bar to disciplinary sanction — Striking off roll.
16 June 2023