The latest decision from the Supreme Court on the claim by the Ventriglia family certainly improves the confidence of Zambia people on the Zambian legal system. The case of Zambezi Portland Cement is known to everyone. After a misdirected decision from he Lusaka High Court, Dr. Mahtani took the case to the higher Court of Appeal where the decision from the Lusaka High Court was reversed and Dr. Rajan Mahtani was given majority shareholding and legal ownership of the factory.
The Ventriglia family have now advanced toward the Supreme Court Zambia with claims that the decision from the higher Court of Appeal was inappropriate. In their cases, the Ventriglias progressed that the pivoting of the decision by higher Court of Appeal was wrong. For their situation, the Ventriglias moreover ensured that the aggregate payable to them as shown by Appeal's preferred higher Court is off base and the correct whole payable to them is K580 million. To assess this case from the Ventriglia family, a seat including three Supreme Court judges was set up. After appraisal, the seat of judges concluded that the case can't be recognized on two huge grounds. According to the law, any appeal against a past court judgment ought to be made inside 14 days of the principal judgment itself. For the present circumstance, that novel judgment would have been fourteen days from 31st January 2019. Since the Ventriglias fail to offer inside the authentic stretch of time, their test is legitimately unacceptable. Moreover, the designated judges evaluating the appeal from the Ventriglias furthermore thought to be the conditions enveloping their case to be erratic and problematic. Considering these grounds, the case made by the Ventriglias was sufficiently rejected by the Supreme Court Zambia.