HEWLETT v MINISTER OF FINANCE AND ANOTHER 1981 ZLR 571 (S)
Citation | 1981 ZLR 571 (S) |
Case No | Details not supplied |
Court | Supreme Court, Salisbury |
Judge | Fieldsend, CJ, Baron, JA, and Goldin, AJA |
Heard | 10th August, 1981; 13th August, 1981 |
Judgment | 10th November, 1981 |
Counsel | J C Andersen, S C (with him I A Donovan and M J Gillespie), for the applicant |
Case Type | Application under Section 24 of Constitution of Zimbabwe |
Annotations | Link to case annotations |
Flynote
Constitutional law — Constitution of Zimbabwe — Declaration of Rights — section 16 — prohibition against compulsory acquisition of property — compensation awarded but not yet paid under Victims of Terrorism (Compensation) Act [Chapter 340] — War Victims Compensation Act, 1980 (No. 22 of 1980) — section 38 (2) — provision that compensation awarded under Chapter 340 to be of no force or effect — such award of compensation "property" in terms of section 16 (1) of Constitution — not a "bounty" which can be repealed at any time — "compulsory acquisition" — meaning of — extinction of a right or debt not acquisition of property.
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