HOLLAND v COMMISSIONER OF THE ZIMBABWE REPUBLIC POLICE 1982 (2) ZLR 29 (H)
Citation | 1982 (2) ZLR 29 (H) |
Case No | Details not supplied |
Court | High Court, Harare |
Judge | Pittman J |
Heard | 20th July, 1982 |
Judgment | 21st July, 1982 |
Counsel | A P de Bourbon, for the applicant. |
Case Type | Details not supplied |
Annotations | Link to case annotations |
Flynote
Statute — Emergency Powers (Maintenance of Law and Order) Regulations, 1980 — section 21 (1) — detention by a police officer of person in respect of whom he has reason to believe there are grounds justifying such detention — necessary for a police placer personally to have such belief — not enough merely to act on orders of a superior officer — Constitution of Zimbabwe — paragraph 2 (1)(a) of Schedule 2 — requirement that detained person be informed within seven days of reasons for his detention — essential to make it clear to detainee that there were ground's for a belief that detention expedient in interests of public safety or public security.
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