THOMAS v COMMISSIONER OF WAR VICTIMS PENSIONS & ANOR 2005 (1) ZLR 72 (S)
Citation | 2005 (1) ZLR 72 (H) |
Case No | Judgment No. S-128-04 |
Court | Supreme Court, Harare |
Judge | Chidyausiku CJ, Ziyambi JA & Malaba JA |
Heard | 23 September 2004 |
Judgment | 27 January 2005 |
Counsel | Charles Thomas & Partners, appellant's legal practitioners |
Case Type | Civil appeal |
Annotations | No case annotations to date |
Flynote
Pensions — disablement pension — disablement due to injury sustained during war in Zimbabwe — to whom such pension payable — need for person to have been engaged in an occupation and in receipt of earnings when injury sustained — unemployed minor sustaining injury — no pension payable
Statutes — War Victims Compensation Act [Chapter 11:16] — disablement pension payable under Act — to whom such pension payable — need for claimant to have been engaged in an occupation and in receipt of earnings when injury sustained — unemployed minor sustaining injury — no pension payable — degree of disablement — claimant must show that disablement had reached a final and stationary condition — must also show that he had not lost his employment as a result of his disablement or suffered similar loss
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