{"id":32070,"date":"2022-10-05T19:55:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T19:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court"},"modified":"2022-10-05T20:38:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T20:38:12","slug":"supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court snubs State: Chisa Mbele\u2019s case to go to Constitutional Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Supreme Court of Appeal Justice Ivy Kamanga has allowed social media activist Joshua Chisa Mbele\u2019s defamation case to go to the Constitutional Court, describing the application by the state to block the move as an abuse of the court process.<\/p>\n

Kamanga has made the ruling today on the state\u2019s application seeking a stay of the High Court\u2019s ruling that referred the case to the Constitutional Court.<\/p>\n

Justice Kamanga in her ruling said the State\u2019s application lacked merit. She also described the application as baseless, vexatious, frivolous and an abuse of court\u2019s process.<\/p>\n

Mbele\u2019s lawyer Gilbert Khonyongwa said the case is now expected to be certified as a constitutional case. Representing the State, Limbikani Msiska, Senior State Advocate, said the state will also be at the constitutional court to argue its case.<\/p>\n

Mbele was arrested after he posted on Facebook earlier this year a document which alleged that Malawi Defence Force Commander General Vincent Nundwe was one of the people who allegedly sourced money from businessman Zuneth Sattar. Mbele deleted the post a few minutes after posting it.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Malawi<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. Supreme Court of Appeal Justice Ivy Kamanga has allowed social media activist Joshua Chisa Mbele\u2019s defamation case to go to the Constitutional Court, describing the application by the state to block the move as an abuse of the court process. Kamanga has made the ruling today on the state\u2019s application seeking a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":32069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[233,371,4121,234,1920],"class_list":["post-32070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-constitutional-court","tag-malawi","tag-supreme-court"],"yoast_head":"\nSupreme Court snubs State: Chisa Mbele\u2019s case to go to Constitutional Court - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Supreme Court of Appeal Justice Ivy Kamanga has allowed social media activist Joshua Chisa Mbele\u2019s defamation case to go ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Supreme Court snubs State: Chisa Mbele\u2019s case to go to Constitutional Court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Supreme Court of Appeal Justice Ivy Kamanga has allowed social media activist Joshua Chisa Mbele\u2019s defamation case to go ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-10-05T19:55:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-10-05T20:38:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_14.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"816\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"612\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Supreme Court snubs State: Chisa Mbele\u2019s case to go to Constitutional Court\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-05T19:55:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-05T20:38:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court\"},\"wordCount\":208,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_14.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Constitutional Court\",\"Malawi\",\"Supreme Court\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court\",\"name\":\"Supreme Court snubs State: Chisa Mbele\u2019s case to go to Constitutional Court - Malawi\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_14.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-05T19:55:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-05T20:38:12+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Supreme Court of Appeal Justice Ivy Kamanga has allowed social media activist Joshua Chisa Mbele\u2019s defamation case to go ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_14.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_14.jpg\",\"width\":816,\"height\":612,\"caption\":\"Supreme Court snubs State: Chisa Mbele\u2019s case to go to Constitutional Court\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Supreme Court snubs State: Chisa Mbele\u2019s case to go to Constitutional Court\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/\",\"name\":\"Malawi\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Supreme Court snubs State: Chisa Mbele\u2019s case to go to Constitutional Court - Malawi","description":"Supreme Court of Appeal Justice Ivy Kamanga has allowed social media activist Joshua Chisa Mbele\u2019s defamation case to go ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Supreme Court snubs State: Chisa Mbele\u2019s case to go to Constitutional Court","og_description":"Supreme Court of Appeal Justice Ivy Kamanga has allowed social media activist Joshua Chisa Mbele\u2019s defamation case to go ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court","og_site_name":"Malawi","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-10-05T19:55:02+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-10-05T20:38:12+00:00","og_image":[{"width":816,"height":612,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_14.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Supreme Court snubs State: Chisa Mbele\u2019s case to go to Constitutional Court","datePublished":"2022-10-05T19:55:02+00:00","dateModified":"2022-10-05T20:38:12+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court"},"wordCount":208,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_14.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Malawi","Constitutional Court","Malawi","Supreme Court"],"articleSection":["all news","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court","name":"Supreme Court snubs State: Chisa Mbele\u2019s case to go to Constitutional Court - Malawi","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_14.jpg","datePublished":"2022-10-05T19:55:02+00:00","dateModified":"2022-10-05T20:38:12+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Supreme Court of Appeal Justice Ivy Kamanga has allowed social media activist Joshua Chisa Mbele\u2019s defamation case to go ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_14.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_14.jpg","width":816,"height":612,"caption":"Supreme Court snubs State: Chisa Mbele\u2019s case to go to Constitutional Court"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/supreme-court-snubs-state-chisa-mbeles-case-to-go-to-constitutional-court#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Supreme Court snubs State: Chisa Mbele\u2019s case to go to Constitutional Court"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/","name":"Malawi","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}