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MATAMISA v MUTARE CITY COUNCIL (ATTORNEY-GENERAL INTERVENING) 1998 (2) ZLR 439 (S)

1998 (2) ZLR p439

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
A P de Bourbon SC, for the respondent
Mrs L R Goredema, for the Attorney-General

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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