YAS and Oxfam Malawi write Chief Justice over sentence disparity in sexual offenses | Malawi Nyasa Times

March 15, 2021
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Two Non-governmental organisations, Youth and Society (YAS) and Oxfam Malawi, have written the office of the Chief Justice, expressing their concerns over what they call “imposition of lenient sentences” by the lower courts in sentencing sexual offenses.
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They say these “huge discrepancies” in sentencing sexual offences undermine the “bar” the High Court raised in sentences imposed in such cases.
YAS and Oxfam Malawi have since asked the office of the chief justice to formulate “sentencing guidelines” for subordinate courts in sexual offences.
The sentiments are in a letter to the chief justice, dated 12 March 2020, which has been made available to

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