Editorial policy

Articles in the Legal Knowledge Hub are written by the LEX ZED editorial team and reviewed before publication. We attribute every article to the team rather than inventing individual authors, qualifications or credentials. Where an article is contributed or reviewed by a named legal practitioner, that person is named on the article itself.

No article is published without human review. The reviewer checks that every legal proposition is supported by an identifiable authority, that statutes are named accurately, that no case, citation, section number or quotation has been invented, and that the article distinguishes settled law from matters that are contested or unresolved.

LEX ZED builds AI research tools, and we use AI in drafting and structuring editorial material. AI output is treated as a first draft only. Every legal statement produced with AI assistance is checked against the primary source by a human editor before publication, and anything that cannot be verified is removed rather than softened.

AI answers generated inside the product for a user are a separate thing entirely: they are not editorial content, they are not published to the public web, and they carry their own warning that authorities must be opened and read before being relied on.

Our primary sources are the Judiciary of Zambia, ZambiaLII and the National Assembly of Zambia. Legal propositions are traced to the Act, the statutory instrument or the judgment that supports them. Secondary material may be used for orientation but is never the sole support for a statement of law.

Every article lists the authoritative sources against which a reader can verify it. Where we could not verify a point to our own standard, the article says so rather than filling the gap.

Case names, citations, court, date and coram are checked against the authoritative record. We do not publish a citation we have not seen in a primary source, and we do not reconstruct the text of a judgment or of a provision from memory or from an AI summary.

Each article shows the date it was first published and the date it was last reviewed. Law changes: statutes are amended and repealed, and judgments are overruled or distinguished. A review date tells you how current the article is, and it is the reason we ask readers to verify against the primary source before relying on anything.

If you believe an article is inaccurate, out of date or misleading, write to us through the contact page with the article title and the authority you rely on. We assess corrections against the primary source. Substantive corrections are made promptly and the review date is updated; where a correction changes the meaning of the article, we note that a correction was made.

Everything in the Knowledge Hub is general legal information about Zambian law, published for education and orientation. It is not legal advice, it does not create a lawyer–client relationship, and it cannot take account of the facts of your matter. For advice, consult a legal practitioner admitted to practise in Zambia. See our legal disclaimer and our research methodology.