Parliament ordered to pass accountability law

Just because a country’s Constitution tells Parliament to do something, there’s no guarantee it will actually happen. And for the second time this year already, the Constitutional Court of an African country has had to remind parliamentarians – and the government – of an unmet constitutional obligation. Last time it was Lesotho. Now it’s Zambia. In both cases the ‘missing’ legislation would help curb corruption among parliamentarians, in Lesotho quite directly, in Zambia by implication. Carmel Rickard, in her A Matter of Justice column on the Legalbrief site, takes a look at what the Zambian Constitutional Court had to say in its latest judgment.