Court Silence Sparks Constitutional Alarm | Zambia News

Zambia News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Sep 3, 2026 · 1m

A legal scholar warns that the Constitutional Court’s eerie silence on a recent presidential petition could repeat the dangerous precedent of 2016, when technicalities buried substantive constitutional issues. The petition, sent via email to the Chief Justice—an irregular move—was forwarded to the court, yet no formal ruling has been issued. Instead, the Judiciary claimed the petition wasn’t received by the registry, a procedural dodge that the scholar says avoids the judicial responsibility the Chief Justice promised. With political stability at stake and constitutional principles demanding…