The applicants appeared before a Magistrate at Nyanga on 18 February 2011 facing charges of public violence as defined in Section 36 of the Criminal Law [Codification and Reform] Act, [Chapter 9:23]. The applicants were legally represented. At the hearing the applicants raised a number of complaints regarding the manner of their arrest. The matter was thereafter postponed on a number of occasions to enable the Court to deal with the various issues raised. On a date that is unclear on the record but in May 2011, the applicants, without giving notice to the prosecution, applied to the magistrate for... More
The chamber application was made ostensibly in “terms of rules 32(2) and 12 of the Constitutional Court Rules, 2016” (“the Rules”). The applicant sought an order for leave to appeal from the ruling of a magistrate denying him a referral to the Constitutional Court (“the Court”) of four questions for determination. Rule 32(2) of the Rules provides that “a litigant who is aggrieved by the decision of a subordinate court on a constitutional matter can apply to the Constitutional Court for leave to appeal against such decision”. More
This is a chamber application for leave to appeal, condonation for late filing of the application for leave to appeal, and exemption from security for the respondents’ costs. More
This is an application for leave for direct access to the Constitutional Court. The application has been filed in terms of s 167(5) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, 2013, (“the Constitution”) as read with r 21(2) of the Constitutional Court Rules, 2016 (“the Rules”). If granted leave to access the Court directly, the applicant intends to bring an application under s 85(1) (a) of the Constitution, seeking the setting aside of the judgment of the Supreme Court in Dolosi & Ors v The State SC 98/23 on the premise that it infringed two of his fundamental rights, namely the More
This is a chamber application for an order for condonation of late filing of an application for leave to appeal made in terms of r 35(1) of the Constitutional Court Rules, 2016 (“the Rules”). More
