quill.gif (3183 bytes) Access to Courts:  Zimbabwe Cases
  • Retrofit (PVT) Ltd. v. Posts and Telecommunications Corporation - applicant
    requested the defendant to issue it with a license for the purpose of establishing a mobile cellular telephone service – state monopoly - declarator - right to freedom of expression - locus standi in judicio - matters not that the applicant’s predominant motivation in challenging the constitutionality of the Act is sourced in prospective financial gain.
  • Reid-Daly v. Hickman and Others - Whether Court’s jurisdiction was ousted by
    statutory provisions as a necessary implication of the internal redress procedure of the Army
  • Patriotic Front-Zimbabwe African People's Union v. Minister of Justice, Legal & Parliamentary Affairs - Executive prerogative; act of State; The term act of State should only be applied to those acts in respect of which the court’s jurisdiction is ousted
  • S v. Marutsi - undesirable for an accused person to be represented at a criminal trial by a law officer from the Attorney-General's office -constitutional issue must be raised in the trial court for reference to the Supreme Court
  • Martin v. Attorney General & Anor - test of whether a referral is frivolous or vexatious or not had to be determined by applying conscientious and objective thought to the question
  • Granger v. Minister of State - frivolous or vexatious questions