BINZA v ACTING DIRECTOR OF WORKS & ANOR 1998 (2) ZLR 364 (H)

1998 (2) ZLR p364

Flynote

Administrative law — audi alteram partem rule — denial to other party of access to document — decision to dismiss employee made on basis of report by municipality's investigating committee — contents of report not disclosed to court or to dismissed employee — rule not complied with

Costs — de bonis propriis — local authority — action against urban council — councillors disregarding town clerk's advice and opposing application — costs awarded against councillors personally

Evidence — privilege — public interest — confidentiality — not a ground on which to claim privilege — extent to which local authority can raise defence of privilege

Local authority — urban council — accountability to ratepayers — right of ratepayers to challenge administrative actions taken by local authority