MATAMISA v MUTARE CITY COUNCIL (ATTORNEY-GENERAL INTERVENING) 1998 (2) ZLR 439 (S)
Citation | 1998 (2) ZLR 439 (S) |
Case No | Judgment No. S-174-98 |
Court | Supreme Court, Harare |
Judge | Ebrahim JA, Sandura JA & Korsah AJA |
Heard | 29 October 1998 |
Judgment | 29 October 1998 |
Counsel | S V Hwacha, for the applicant |
Case Type | Constitutional application |
Annotations | Link to case annotations |
Flynote
Appeal — hearing — nature of — whether oral argument essential — Conduct of hearing
Constitutional law — Constitution of Zimbabwe 1980 — Declaration of Rights — s 24 — constitutional application to Supreme Court — dismissal without hearing — competence — when court may dismiss application without hearing — s 18 — right to fair hearing — applicability to appeal hearings — oral argument — whether failure to hear oral argument amounts to failure to give a fair hearing
Costs — de bonis propriis — legal practitioner — practitioner bringing application which he must have known was frivolous
Legal practitioner — conduct and ethics — duty to adopt a disinterested approach
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