User:Malila M/sandbox

Hon Justice Dr Mumba Malila SC, is a Cambridge - Livingstone/ODA Scholar. He obtained his LLB degree from the University of Zambia where in his undergraduate days he was the recipient of the Kwamena Bentsi-Enchill Memorial Prize for the best third year law student in 1986 and the Law Association of Zambia Prize for the best student in Jurisprudence in 1987. He undertook his post graduate legal practitioners' course at the then Law Practice Institute in 1988 and passed the ten courses offered at one sitting. He proceeded to England where he read law at Sydney Sussex College of the University of Cambridge and obtained an LLM degree. He was admitted to the Zambian Bar as an Advocate in November 1989. He earned his Doctor of Laws degree (LLD) from the University of Pretoria in 2017.

Justice Dr Malila is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London) and a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society. He holds a Certificate in Human Rights from the Rene Casin Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. He has served in numerous portfolios both at national and African regional level, including those of Chairperson of the Zambian Human Rights Commission, Attorney General of the Republic of Zambia, ex officio Zambian Cabinet Member, Commissioner and Vice Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, Special Rapporteur on Prisons and Conditions of Detention in Africa, Chairperson of the Zambia Anti Money Laundering Authority, Chairperson of the Council of the Zambia Institute of Advanced Legal Education and Chairperson of the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee. Dr Malila was also a Member of the Judicial Service Commission, the Zambia Law Development Commission and the Zambian Citizen' Economic Empowerment Commission. He also served as a member of the Zambia Council of Law Reporting.

He is formerly the Vice Chairperson of the Human Rights Association of Zambia; one time honorary Secretary of the Law Association of Zambia, as well as Council Member of the SADC Lawyers Association. He served as Company Secretary of the Lusaka Stock Exchange in its formative stages and Acting Board Secretary of Zambia Ceramics Limited. He was a board member the Boards of Zambia Railways Limited, the Zambia Public Procurement Authority, the National Council for Construction and Women and Law in Southern Africa

Dr Malila previously lectured in the School of Law at the University of Zambia where he became Assistant Dean (Post Graduate) and eventually Assistant Dean (Research). He also served as Honorary lecturer in Commercial Transactions and later in Company Law and Procedure at the Law Practice Institute, later renamed ZIALE. He previously was Assessor in Company Law and Procedure at the Law Practice Institute.

He has considerable interest in writing and publishing. He has authored three books, co-authored one, written nineteen scholarly articles published in refereed journals and has contributed three book chapters. His editorial board assignments include Chairmanship of the Zambia Law Reports Editorial Board, membership of the Editorial Boards of the Zambia Law Journal and the Zango Journal of Contemporary Issues?

Prior to his appointment as Republican Attorney General, Justice Dr. Malila worked for a leading private law firm - Christopher Russell Cook & Co. before he joined the Meridien group of companies as Manager, Legal Services. He was later appointed as Company Secretary and Legal Counsel of the Emerging Market group of companies. In 1996 he set up and ran a private law practice under the name Phoenix Partners before it was renamed as Mumba Malila and Partners.

Dr Malila was also a Scholar for Katholieke University, Lueven, Belgium for staff exchange to Flemish Universities 2005-2007. He took silk as State Counsel for Zambia in 2006. In 2009 Transparency International (Zambia) awarded Hon Dr Justice Malila the Integrity Prize. He is a life member of the Lions Club of Fairview and Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the United Church of Zambia.