The applicants who are all members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police sought a declaratur to the effect that their conviction and sentence by the police force after having been charged in a court of law on allegations of theft and fraud was wrongful and unlawful. They also sought that the Commissioner General of Police be ordered to reinstate all four of them into the police service forth with. More
CHIRAWU-MUGOMBA J: This matter was placed before me as one for review in terms of R62 of the High Court Rules, 2021. In casu, the applicants seek an order to set aside their sentence and conviction by the 1st respondent and their acquittal on charges preferred against them. At the hearing, there was no appearance for the respondents. Efforts were made to ascertain what the challenge was and it appeared that no one was sure of who was handling the matter on the part of the respondents’ legal practitioners. Counsel for the respondents Ms N L Mabasa, logged into the... More
The applicant is a company which is duly registered as such in accordance with the laws of this country. It is indisputably a mass media provider. The applicant was the publisher of two newspapers, The Daily News, which was a daily newspaper and The Daily News on Sunday. It is not registered in terms of the Access of Information and Protection of Privacy Act [Chapter 10:23] (AIPPA) as a mass media provider and is thus not publishing the newspapers concerned. It has launched these proceedings for an order that it be deemed to be registered in terms of the Act.... More
On 28 July 2005, the applicant filed a court application in terms of Order 33 of the Rules of the High Court of Zimbabwe, 1971. The application was for a review of the proceedings and decision of the respondent, handed down on 18 July 2005, denying the respondent registration as a media service provider in terms of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, [Chapter 10:27]. The grounds given in the application for the review were procedural irregularity and bias on the part of the Chairperson of the respondent. More
The applicant is a legal practitioner and senior partner at the law firm of Musunga& Associates which cherishes its domicile in Harare, Zimbabwe. The respondent is the regulating authority governing the activities of legal practitioners in this jurisdiction. The applicant has made an approach to this court in terms of Order 33 Rule 256 of the High Court of Zimbabwe Rules, 1971 seeking a review of the decision of the respondent handed down on 14 July 2010 in which he was found guilty of professional misconduct and “reprimanded and warned to always act as a diligent conveyancer.” More
