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Malawi judges reflect on life threats during key ruling

Publish date: 16 May 2022
Issue Number: 976
Diary: IBA Legalbrief Africa
Category: Judiciary

Two participants at a human rights training course for judges from 11 African countries, held in Cape Town last week, have first-hand experience of what making a bold human rights decision may sometimes demand. Judges Mike Tembo and Redson Kapindu were both on the Bench, part of a five-judge panel in what they say was, without doubt, the most monumental case in Malawi’s history. Carmel Rickard, in her A Matter of Justice column on the Legalbrief site, writes that it was a case that left them physically shaken and traumatised and fearful for their lives, but all the wiser from the experience and more determined than ever to live up to the demands of their judicial oath of office.

A Matter of Justice

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