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Mike Campbell (Pvt) Ltd et al. v. Republic of Zimbabwe [1] is a case decided by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal (hereinafter "the Tribunal"). The Tribunal held that the Zimbabwean government violated the organisation's treaty by denying access to the courts and engaging in racial discrimination against white farmers whose lands had been confiscated under the land ...
The Supreme Court of Zimbabwe made a groundbreaking decision in 1995 by ruling that a foreign husband should have identical rights of residence as a foreign wife. [7] As a direct result of this ruling, the Zimbabwean government added the 14th amendment to the constitution, which effectively got rid of all rights to citizenship based on marriage ...
For the Rhodesian justices, the appointment date indicates the date they were appointed to the High Court of Rhodesia, which was superseded by the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe. The start date of the Rhodesian justices' tenure, however, is 18 April 1980, the date that the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe came into being.
In 2012, Mpofu represented and won former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's bid to sue former president Robert Mugabe without seeking the leave of court, becoming the first case of that kind. [9] In 2019 he led a bid in the Constitutional Court against a High Court of Zimbabwe judgment that outlawed corporal punishment in Zimbabwe.
There is a High Court consisting of general and appellate divisions. Below the High Court are regional magistrate's courts with civil jurisdiction and magistrate's courts with both civil and criminal jurisdiction over cases involving traditional law and custom. Beginning in 1981, these courts were integrated into the national system.
The Chief Justice of Zimbabwe is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe. As such, he is head of the Zimbabwe judiciary. Per Section 168 of the Zimbabwean Constitution, the Chief Justice is assisted by a Deputy Chief Justice and no fewer than two other associate justices. The Chief Justice leads the business of the Supreme Court and ...
The Zimbabwean police defied an emergency high court ruling ordering the release of Mtetwa and continued to hold her on charges of obstructing justice. After more than a week in jail, Mtetwa was released on Monday 25 March 2013 after a high court judge overruled a lower court's decision that she be held without bail on a charge of obstruction ...
[14] [15] On 20 October 2023, president Mnangagwa proclaimed 9 December 2023 as the date for the by-elections. [16] The Harare High Court rejected the expelled CCC MPs' appeal to be reinstated on 4 November 2023. [17] On 7 November 2023, the Nomination Court sat to receive papers from candidates for the by-elections. [18]