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Owing to the shift of the Zambian economy from a national control economy to a free market economy, there has been need for the government to effectively regulate the economy in order to promote fair competition and consumer protection. In an attempt to achieve this need the government enacted...

The Pharmaceutical industry in general requires a well outlined laws to ensure proper control. The Zambian pharmaceutical industry is not an exception to this. The law governing the industry in Zambia is the Pharmaceutical Act No. 14 of 2004 which repealed the 'Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1940' and...

Statutory interpretation is one of the most common tasks undertaken by Courts. Such interpretation is often necessitated by several factors that include ambiguity and omissions. Judges have over the years developed rules that are used as aids to interpretation. Yet it has been generally observed...

Women in Zambia, like the rest of the world face a number of gender based challenges even in the sphere of employment. The law, being an important instrument to society if used well can help to protect them from such challenges. This research paper presents an evaluation of the extent to which...

Historically, people with disabilities have been among the most impoverished, politically marginalized and least visible members of their societies globally. There are approximately 650 million disabled people in the world of whom 470 million are of working age. This situation is also true to...

Over the years ,most parts of the country have witnessed the mushrooming of a business known as street vending. There is a general tendency by most people of selling their goods in streets and other open public places both in residential and commercial areas. It is important that whenever people...

It is essential that there are adequate laws and the efficient enforcement of those laws to ensure that work places are safe and not posing a risk to the health of the workforce. The object of the research therefore, is to evaluate the law regulating occupational health and safety and its...

It is not a secret that global economies are no longer shaped by huge reserves of natural resources alone because developed economies are driven more by the power of information. After all, information is power. It must be noted that licensing of electronic communications is one of the most...

A Common Leasehold Scheme refers to a scheme registered under the Common Leasehold Schemes Act for the division of a parcel of land and its buildings into units.The law on common leasehold schemes in Zambia is greatly dependant on the common leasehold schemes Act which was enacted in 1994 and has...