Information reaching this publication indicates that the August House has approved hike of salaries for Magistrate and Judges in the country by 41 percent.
According to information, the Judges have also been given a chance per their request to import car duty free every five years.
Association of Magistrates in Malawi (AMA) President Kondani Chinangwa has confirmed of the development in an interview with the press.
“It’s not everything that has been approved, but since we are discussing, the judicial officers are okay for now with a hope that all conditions will be approved as stipulated by the constitution of the Republic [of Malawi],” he was quoted as saying in the nation publications limited.
However, Parliament rejected some of the judicial requests such as upward adjustments of non-practising allowance from K500 000 per month and fuel allowance from 200 litres per month to about 1 200 litres per month.
