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BITI v MINISTER OF STATE SECURITY 1999 (1) ZLR 165 (S)

1999 (1) ZLR p165

Citation

1999 (1) ZLR 165 (S)

Case No

Judgment No. S-19-99

Court

Supreme Court, Harare

Judge

Gubbay CJ, McNally JA, Sandura JA

Heard

16 February 1999

Judgment

15 March 1999

Counsel

A P de Bourbon SC, for the appellant
Mrs L M M Moyo, for the respondent

Case Type

Civil appeal

Annotations

Link to case annotations

Flynote

Delict — vicarious liability — course of employment — test — whether servant engaged in affairs or business of employer — driver entrusted with vehicle — deviation from authorised route — whether deviation sufficient to convert act into "frolic of his own"

Damages — delictual — assessment — effect of decline in value of money — illegality of source of income of injured party — relevance of — date from which interest should run

Evidence — documentary — production of documents containing hearsay and/or opinion evidence — when permissible

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