BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)–The Supreme Court of Appeal has adjourned hearing on application by Norman Chisale’s lawyer for a stay order and injunction against the conduct of police, to Monday 17 August.
In an interview with journalists on Wednesday, lead lawyer for Chisale, Chancy Gondwe, said the state is not ready and needs more sworn statements before proceeding with the hearing of the application.
Lawyers for Chisale were today expected to ask the Supreme Court of Appeal to grant them an injunction and stay order to stop the Malawi Police Service from effecting any further arrests on their client.
This comes after the High Court Judge Charles Mkandawire in Lilongwe granted them permission for Judicial Review on 31 July, 2020.
Gondwe said Mkandawire declined to grant the Interlocutory injunction and the stay orders against the conduct of the Malawi Police Service in multiple, consecutive and endless arrests.
The security aide for former president Peter Mutharika is facing a litany of charges and on two occasions was rearrested soon after just been granted bail by the court.
Gondwe said: “We renewed the application for the injunction and the Stay Order before a single member of the Supreme Court of Appeal on Sunday who directed that the Application should come inter- parties today this morning at 11 am.”
The appeal will be heard before Justice Frank Kapanda.
Chisale has been arrested three times on charges of importing cement duty free using Mutharika’s privileges of duty free imports, murder of former director at Anti-Corruption Bureau and attempted murder of a woman in Blantyre.
Chisale is currently on remand at Maula prison.
