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PAWENI v MINISTER OF STATE (SECURITY) AND ANOTHER 1984 (1) ZLR 236 (H)

1984 (1) ZLR p236

Citation

1984 (1) ZLR 236 (H)

Case No

Details not supplied

Court

High Court, Harare

Judge

Smith J

Heard

6 April 1984

Judgment

9 April 1984

Counsel

I A Donovan, for the petitioner
S Mafara, for the respondents

Case Type

Details not supplied

Annotations

No case annotations to date

Flynote

Statutes — Emergency Powers (Maintenance of Law and Order) Regulations 1983 — s 21 — detainee — right to be advised of reasons for detention vagueness of reasons — necessary for reasons to be sufficiently clear to enable detainee to make representations about propriety of detention — effect of failure to provide reasons — use of detention under Emergency Powers regulations to investigate criminal offence — unlawfulness of.

Detainee — access to by legal practitioner — no right by detaining authorities to restrict — past instances of — future cases may result in costs on legal practitioner and client scale being awarded against State.

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