{"id":64050,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/64050/?format=json","text_counter":127,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Deputy Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"The Chair fails to understand how Parliament has been turned into an appellate body. This is a matter to be determined by the court. The merits and demerits of that determination can only be determined in the same courts; that is the Court of Appeal. Parliament cannot be turned into a court. Once a person has been charged, there is an assumption that the matter is sub judice ; that it is a matter pending before a court. A sub judice matter includes even that matter which has been determined by a court. So, Parliament cannot take over the role of an appellate court or the Judiciary."}