This is an opposed application for review of the proceedings of the disciplinary committee against the applicant. The applicant is an employee of the respondent. He is employed as a Provincial Magistrate. He was charged of contravening the Judicial Service Regulations 2015, as read with the criminal law (Codification andReform) Act, Chapter 9:23. He was also charged in the alternative of contravening the same Judicial Service Regulations as read with the Magistrates Code of Ethics of 2019. He was convicted of the main charge and consequently found not guilty of the alternative charge. A penalty of discharge way imposed. More
This is an appeal against a decision of the respondent dismissing the appellant’s appeal against the decision of the disciplinary committee. The appellant was the acting accountant at Karoi District Hospital. He was charged with failing to take reasonable care of or making improper or unauthorised use of public money. While working in the accounts department, he was accused of withdrawing money from the Health Service Fund without returning it. He was found guilty and fined two months’ salary which would be recovered in four instalments by the Salary Service Bureau. He was also transferred to the Administration Department with... More
The applicant is a duly registered tertiary institution and the respondent is a former employee of the applicant. The respondent was employed as a procurement officer from March 2023 to 3 November 2023 when he was suspended from employment pending an investigation. The respondent was charged with sexual harassment and dismissed from employment on 24 November 2023.The respondent then filed an application for review of the proceedings of the disciplinary hearing in case number LC/H/1037/23 with this Court. More
This is an appeal against the whole judgment of the High Court (“the court a quo”) dated 28 February 2023. In that judgment, the court a quo dismissed the appellant’s application for review of the respondent’s decision to withdraw his offer letter in respect of Subdivision 3 of Ingleborough Farm in Mazowe (the “farm”). More
This is an application for leave to appeal against the decision of this Court that was handed down on 5 June 2020. This Court dismissed the applicant’s appeal against the decision of the appeals officer to dismiss him from work for engaging in fraud and or theft in the course of his employment.
The applicant’s grounds for this application are that
(i) This court did not canvass the essential elements oftheft or fraud.
(ii) There are prospects of success as there was circumstantial evidence.
The Respondent in responseargued that the essential elements of theft/fraud had been proved through the evidence... More
