Mzuzu High Court

Mzuzu High Court is the High Court of Malawi's station in Mzuzu, the capital of Malawi's Northern Region, in Mzimba District. In June 2024 the Malawi News Agency, the government news service, reported that the Assistant Registrar for Mzuzu High Court had helped facilitate the election of the Mzuzu City mayor, advising that a candidate with a pending case could stand because the court had not yet found him guilty. The High Court is established by section 108 of the Constitution. According to the Judiciary, it has unlimited original jurisdiction to hear and determine any civil or criminal proceedings under any law, and it reviews laws and government actions and decisions for conformity with the Constitution. It sits below the Supreme Court of Appeal, Malawi's final court of appeal, and above the subordinate courts: the Industrial Relations Court, magistrates' courts, child justice courts and local courts. Its work is organised in divisions: - Civil - Commercial - Criminal - Family and Probate - Revenue - Financial Crimes The Judiciary also lists two subordinate courts in the city, the Chief Resident Magistrate Court for the Northern Region and the Mzimba North Magistrate Court, both at Post Office Box 12, Mzuzu; these are separate from the High Court. Mzuzu is Malawi's third-largest city, with 221,272 residents at the 2018 census. It grew up around the Commonwealth Development Corporation's tung oil estate from 1947 and received city status in 1985. It lies on the M1, which runs the length of the country, and is the northern terminus of the M5 towards Nkhata Bay. The Judiciary does not publish a direct telephone number for the Mzuzu court; its headquarters at Chichiri, Blantyre, can be reached on +265 1 870 255 or +265 1 873 873, or at highcourt@judiciary.mw, as given on judiciary.mw.

District Commissioner's Office, Kabunduli Road, Mzuzu, Malawi
Mzimba

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