Judge says he has travelled outside the country
Hon. Mr. Justice Kelvin Hancubwili Limbani the Judge-in-Charge of the Kabwe High Court and one presiding over the matter says he has travelled outside the country
PF fights injunction freezing General Conference
By EMV Reporter
The Patriotic Front (PF) has filed an urgent application in the Kabwe High Court seeking to set aside the ex-parte Order of Injunction granted to Morgan Ng’ona, the Secretary General of the Robert Chabinga-led faction, which stopped the former ruling party from proceeding with its General Conference.
In an affidavit supporting the application, PF acting Secretary General Brenda Nyirenda argued that Mr Ng’ona obtained the injunction without making a full and frank disclosure of key facts, particularly those relating to pending matters already before the High Court.
Ms Nyirenda said the issues raised by Mr Ng’ona were the same ones the court previously heard and ruled on in a matter decided on March 25, 2025, before Justice C. Chinyanwa.
She emphasised that questions surrounding the party’s leadership remained under judicial consideration in cases 2024/HP/0938 and 2025/HP/01337.
“It is worth noting, that by its Ruling, the Honourable Court on 25th of March, 2025 under cause 2024/HP/0938, that in order to avoid coming up with contradicting decisions due to numerous application relating to the parties, owing to the fact that the issue of who is the President of the Patriotic Front is still a contentious issue which is still a subject of consideration under cause No. 2025/HP/01337,” Ms Nyirenda said.
She said considering that another High Court was still determining issues that Mr Ng’ona had brought before the court without disclosing the matters before another court amounted to forum shopping.
Ms Nyirenda said as such, the court should discharge the injunction granted on November 12, 2025 forthwith due to multiplicity of actions.
She said if the Court did not discharge the injunction, it may lead to contradictory decision arising from the same facts by different Courts.
Ms Nyirenda urged the court to discharge the Order of Injunction.
She submitted that it was in the interest of justice that the Ex-parte Order of injunction dated November 12, 2025 be discharged forthwith
“The injunction in itself seeks to close all operations and the functionalities of the office of the party which in itself is unfair and unjust and does not seek to achieve the functions of an injunction. I depose to the foregoing verily believing the same to be true from facts within my personal knowledge and belief,” Ms Nyirenda said.
We must know the difference between Preliminary injunction and Permanent injunction.How long is the first week of December? PF has one challenge.They are slowly in application of logic.In football the PF faction would fail to score and defend.In short it would be a football team very easy to defeat.They don’t have advisory unit it seems or the advisory team is also a key planner.One and the same thing.How many hearings in short space? Won’t the hearings end up on the same date or after the other? The purpose of?
Just to assist. An Ex-Parte ORDER of Injunction is referred to as Interim Injunction. Ex-Parte because the Plaintff filed documents in Court alone without the Defendant. The Court would then set a date for both parties to appear, allowing the Defendant to file an Affidavit in Opposition. A Plaintiff may file an Affidavit in Reply. After the hearing of matter in Chambers the Court would make a RULING either to discharge the Injunction of make it Interlocutory or permanent until final determination of main matter or delivery of JUDGMENT.