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31 gru 2017 · An Act to consolidate the law relating to the High Court and certain courts subordinate thereto Part I – Preliminary 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Courts Act. 2. Interpretation In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires— "civil matter" means a civil matter that is not a commercial, criminal, family or probate matter ...
31 gru 2017 · Courts Act. Chapter 3:02. Commenced on 1 August 1958. [This is the version of this document at 31 December 2017.] [Note: This version of the Act was revised and consolidated in the Fifth Revised Edition of the Laws of Malawi (L.R.O. 1/2018), by the Solicitor General and Secretary for Justice under the authority of the Revision of the Laws Act.]
The Malawi Legal Information Institute (MalawiLII) was launched in 2009 as an online resource that provides free access to the laws of Malawi.
(1) Any person who is not entitled to practise as a legal practitioner before the courts of Malawi, by virtue of any law for the time being in force regulating the conditions on which persons may be admitted to practise before the courts of Malawi, and who, unless he proves that the act was not done
Currently, the Law Commission is reviewing the Traditional Courts Act in order to bring it in conformity with the provisions of the Constitution. The following is a pictorial representation of Malawi’s court system: The Judiciary and Constitutional Cornerstones. Openness; The judicial process is a very open process.
This Act concerns the judicature in Malawi, constitutes the High Court, provides for the establishment of subordinate courts and provides with respect to jurisdiction and proceedings of the High Court and subordinate courts.
Courts can only act within their legally defined jurisdiction. The magistrates’ courts in Malawi, which are subordinate to the High Court,12 handle both civil and criminal matters. In fact most of the cases are handled in the magistrates’ courts.
