Parliament’s Public Appointments Committee (PAC) says it has made progress towards implementation of the relevant legislative provisions of the Judicial Reform Acts.
Committee clerk Kettie Musukwa said stakeholder consultations, institutional establishment processes, interim financial arrangements and recruitment and selection of Independent Complaints Commission of the Judiciary’s (ICCJ) commissioner are underway.
She was speaking during a stakeholders’ workshop on the implementation of the Judicial Reform Laws organised by the Malawi Law Society (MLS) in Lilongwe.
In her presentation, Musukwa also said being a new office in Malawi, there was need for benchmarking in other jurisdictions outside the country where such offices are already established.
“However, the full operationalisation of the ICCJ remains dependent on the completion of outstanding institutional, human resource, financial and logistical arrangements,” she said.
Parliament enacted the Constitution (Amendment) Act, 2025 and the Judicial Service Administration Act, 2025 last year which form part of the reform laws aimed at modernising and strengthening the independence of the country’s judiciary.
MLS president Davis Njobvu while commending Parliament for the progress made so far observed the work was just the beginning of the journey to ensure all procedures and regulations are put in place.
Human Rights Defenders Coalition chairperson Michael Kaiyatsa said Parliament had demonstrated commitment to ensuring that the Judicial reform laws are implemented.
