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argument
that
for that
those
reason
who
alone
deliberately
precluded
the constitutional guarantee
I must
state that the judgment
from
cannot
growing
be
of Mulenga,
overstatement,
democracies
expression
and
constitutional
to long
claim
an
of the press.
democratic
and
in
is committed
claiming
my
J.S.C, went
of freedom
the
right
ideas
and
information
As
the
Supreme
view,
that
to upholding
practices,
of
down
very well
Zambia,
like
most
the right to freedom
the
constitutional
and
much
lay too
not
may
country
However,
practices.
of
that
inter alia, the rights
under the Bill of Rights, and especially, in this
opinions
to hold
without
Court
benefit
case, as it did with me also.
must be the raison de’tre to spur us to entrenching,
case,
the
are
At only 50 years of post independence
entrenched
and freedoms guaranteed
falsehoods
of free speech.”
with the other learned justices in the OBBO
It
publish
and
to receive
and
impart
interference.
observed
in the
case
Canadian
of ZUNDEL,
the
danger of applying Section 67 in the present form is that the prohibition
against
publishing
prosecuted,
false
news
affects
those
only
not
of the fear that they will be caught.
This is compounded
by the perception that falsity is defined by the majority,
speech.
and
but also those who may refrain from saying what they would
like to because
minority
caught
groups
or individuals
from
laying
out
their
hence excluding
beliefs
by way
of
Section 67 makes possible conviction for virtually any statement
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