{"id":716620,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/716620/?format=json","text_counter":452,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"saying, I have talked to you. To put that matter to rest, that issue went to the High Court. Judge Musimba who is now a Judge of the Court of Appeal gave a very long ruling on the word “consultation.” In the manner in which it is used in the Constitution – you may remember that the Accord was part of the Constitution – he said the word consultation does not mean that you go and sit with somebody or meet him along the corridors and say, I have spoken to him. It must entail some concurrence between the two delegations. If there is no concurrence, then it means nothing. I think that is what the two rulings were saying. So, could you recall that ruling by the Speaker? When former Speaker Marende made a considered ruling, it was used in the High Court on that matter."}