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December 2025
Kadzamira v Sub Traditional Authority Kawere & 3 Others v Attorney General( Ministry of Lands) (Civil Cause 373 of 2020) [2025] MWHCCiv 15 (30 December 2025)
The claimant’s late-registered lease was void; earlier registered lease prevails and the trespass claim is dismissed.
  • Deeds Registration Act — mandatory registration period; late registration renders instrument void — priority of registration under s.8
  • Trespass — possessory tort; possession ordinarily sufficient but yields to superior registered title. Nemo dat quod non habet — unregistered surrender ineffective; re-grant by minister invalid if prior lease subsists. Res judicata — default judicial review judgment not a merits-based bar; identity of parties and merits required
  • Limitation — bars affirmative claims but does not preclude defendants relying on historical title defensively
  • Relief — interlocutory injunction vacated; court-directed survey to demarcate customary land boundaries
30 December 2025
November 2025
Manguluti v Chithyola and Another (66 of 2025) [2025] MWHCCiv 17 (7 November 2025)
Post-declaration election petitions proceed under Section 101; technical defects in verification are curable and not necessarily fatal.
  • Election law — Procedure — Distinction between Sections 100 and 101 PPLGEA — Post-declaration petitions proceed under Section 101 — Verifying sworn statements and exhibits — Procedural defects curable under CPR, 2017 — Judicial review not mandatory for factual election disputes.
7 November 2025
September 2025
Kazombo v Malawi Electoral Commission (Judicial Review Cause 61 of 2025) [2025] MWHCCiv 13 (22 September 2025)
Leave for judicial review dismissed for deficient drafting, but applicant granted liberty to refile with notice to respondent.
  • Judicial review — leave to apply — procedural and drafting deficiencies (typos, wrong citations, unclear arguments) — Order 19 CPR — dismissal with liberty to refile — notice to respondent.
22 September 2025
January 2025
Exploits University v Guojun & Sambiri (Civil Cause 389 of 2020) [2025] MWHCCiv 2 (29 January 2025)
Claim dismissed with costs for failure to comply with trial directions and an incompetent adjournment request.
  • Adjournment applications — competence and supporting evidence; failure to comply with trial directions; failure to prosecute; court’s discretion to grant adjournments; dismissal with costs.
29 January 2025
Manda v Kamangila (Civil Case 114 of 2024) [2025] MWHCCiv 3 (12 January 2025)
12 January 2025