Prosecutorial misconduct and police excesses in Zambia

ISBN-13: 9786139444519 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 116 str.

Joseph Chirwa

Opis

Zambia is one of the countries that has not been spared of the epidemic of wrongful convictions. This blight on justice is as a result of failure of mechanisms in the country's criminal justice system. These failures arise from prosecutorial misconduct and police excesses in form of torture, corruption, contamination of evidence, hiding of exculpatory evidence, testilying, perjury, planting of evidence among others. This book has done a comparative study of Zambia with South Africa, being a leading constitutional democracy and Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation.

O autorze

Chirwa, Joseph
Joseph Chirwa is an Advocate of the High Court for Zambia (Advocate/ Barrister/ Lawyer/ Legal Practitioner/ Solicitor) and formerly State Advocate in the Attorney-General's Chambers under the Civil Litigation Department and Legal and Prosecutions Officer under the Anti-Corruption Commission in Lusaka.