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The Power of Parliament to Commit Persons for Contempt in Zambia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

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The applicants were respectively the managing director and editor of the Post newspaper. They published a series of articles in the newspaper in which they criticized the Speaker and the Vice-President for critical comments made about judges of the Supreme Court. Without any form of trial, they were adjudged guilty of gross contempt of the National Assembly and of a breach of parliamentary privilege by the Standing Orders Committee and committed to prison for an indefinite period. They applied to the High Court for a writ of habeas corpus.

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Recent Developments
Information
Journal of African Law , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , Spring 1998 , pp. 138
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1998

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