This is an application for condonation of late filing of an application for review under case number HC 2329/16.
BACKGROUND
Prior to 24 May 2016, the applicant was an officer in the Police Service. Following allegations of improper release of suspects and exhibits, the applicant and his accomplice were convicted by a court of a single officer for contravening paragraph 35 of the Schedule to the Police Act (Chapter 11:10) as read with sections 29 and 34 of the said Act i.e. “Acting in a manner reasonably likely to bring discredit to the Police Service.” More
The applicant made this application and simply titled it, “Court application for review”. He listed the grounds for review as follows:
“The dismissal of the applicant’s appeal against discharge by the 1st respondent are full of procedural irregularities in that:
1. By dismissing the applicant’s appeal against discharge, when the state had failed to prove a prima facie case, against applicant, respondents gave themselves power where it is not supposed to exist.
2. The 2nd respondent dismally failed to give reasons for their decision of dismissing applicant’s appeal against discharge. By so doing it is clear that the applicant can... More
This matter came to me as an opposed application. It was an application in terms of Order 40 Rule 359 (8) of the High Court Rules, 1971. After reading documents filed of record and after hearing counsel, I dismissed the application with an award of costs on the ordinary scale. Below are the reasons for my decision. More
This is an application for bail pending trial. Applicant is facing a charge of “unlawful possession of raw ivory of elephant” as defined in section 82(1) of the Parks and Wildlife Regulations S.I. 362/1990 as read with section 128 (1) (b) of the Parks and Wildlife Act [Chapter 20:14]. It is alleged that on the 24th May 2020 and at a bus terminus at Makwika Village, Hwange, the accused unlawfully possessed eight raw unmarked pieces of ivory weighing 9 405 kilograms without a permit. More
