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November 2024
R v Mbawu (Being Criminal Case 374 of 2024 at Mchinji Magistrate's Court) [2024] MWHCCrim 8 (19 November 2024)
High Court set aside arbitrarily imposed fines for forestry offences, requiring means test and reducing custodial sentences.
Forestry offences — sentencing — fines and default imprisonment — mandatory means test — application of Fines (Conversions) Act — first offender principles — s340(1) Criminal Procedure and Evidence Code — supervisory confirmation review.
 19 November 2024
April 2024
S v Mphwiyo and Another (Criminal Case 35 of 2014) [2024] MWHCCrim 2 (23 April 2024)
Intervenor’s request to stay and set aside a bail-forfeiture order dismissed; appeal and ordinary proceedings are the proper remedies.
Criminal procedure — Forfeiture of property deposited as bail security — Section 121 Criminal Procedure and Evidence Code; Stay of execution — High Court jurisdiction and final orders; Inherent jurisdiction — sparing invocation where appeal available; Financial Crimes Act — Preservation order notices (section 66) not applicable to bail forfeiture; Matrimonial property claims — rights enforceable by appropriate proceedings or appeal.
 23 April 2024
March 2024
Kamwagha v R (Criminal Appeal 17 of 2021) [2024] MWHCCrim 1 (25 March 2024)
Appellant’s convictions for grievous harm and malicious damage quashed for insufficient evidence; alternative conviction impermissible under precedent.
Criminal law — Grievous bodily harm — High threshold for ‘grievous harm’ under section 4/238 — Medical evidence not always mandatory but here insufficient; Malicious damage — proof of wilful or reckless damage required and absence of exhibit fatal; Alternative verdicts — courts may not substitute lesser offences where State chose charge (Namatav v Republic); Self‑defence and provocation — disproportional response defeats self‑defence, provocation not available to reduce non‑murder offences; Sentencing — original sentences excessive.
 25 March 2024