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DM Chirwa: Human rights under the Malawian Constitution

Esther Gumboh

Doctoral Candidate; Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Public Law, University of Cape Town, South Africa

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1 DM Chirwa Human rights under the Malawian Constitution (2011) 2.
2 As above.
3 Act 20 of 1994.
4 Chirwa (n 1 above) 2.
5 17-22.
6 27.
7 40-43.
8 40. Chirwa cites as an example the case of Attorney-General & Another v Malawi Congress Party & Others (1997) 2 MLR 181, 223 (SCA).
9 40.
10 41.
11 40.
12 As above. See sec 42(2)(e) of the Constitution.
13 41.
14 As above.
15 41-42.
16 42-43.
17 43.
18 As above.
19 See eg M Chigawa 'The death penalty under the laws of Malawi and the law of human rights' (2009) 3 Malawi Law Journal 70 82.
20 95. See further 92-94.
21 126.
22 As above.
23 127.
24 134.
25 127.
26 Sec 19(1) of the Constitution.
27 125.
28 124.
29 As above.
30 125 (emphasis in original).
31 125-126.
32 126.
33 See ch III of the Constitution.
34 259.
35 97.
36 Constitutional Case 15 of 1997.
37 259. The right to development is specifically discussed at 265-268.
38 459-460.
39 459-461.
40 460.
41 461.
42 458.
43 See comments on the book by Dennis Davis, Judge of the High Court of South Africa and Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Malawi and Professor Boyce Wanda, University of Fort Hare (both appear as blurbs at the back of Chirwa's book).