My remarks and observations in relation to this matter are a matter of record, and so I will not repeat them today. All I will say it that all my rights as a citizen and as a Member of Parliament in regard to any aspect of this matter are fully reserved. What I would like to say is this, the motivation by the Minister tells us that he seeks to comply with what the High Court per Justice Abednico Tafa has indicated in terms he says the Judge has chided Parliament for having abdicated its responsibilities to prescribe the number of Judges of the Court of Appeal (CoA) in terms of Section 99 (2b) of the Constitution.
Before I deal with the rest of the issues, let me make something very, very clear speaking from the vantage point of a practitioner of law, a jurist. When a court determines a matter, the court does not give advisory opinions, the court deals with any matter on the basis of what lawyers know to be the case or controversy method. In other words there must be an actual dispute not an imaginary one, there must be a live disputant and a live dispute before the court; that is what we call a case controversy method.
