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29 out of 43 aspiring High Court judge fail writing a judgment, 4 chicken out of interviews for High Court judges’ posts

Posted on October 25, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

TWENTY-NINE aspiring High Court judges have proved that they cannot write a judgment, a basic skill every judge must possess. Fearing more embarrassment, four of the candidates — part of the 10 lawyers lined up to be interviewed for the High Court judges’ posts — yesterday chickened out and slunk out of the waiting room. The panel, that was made up of 10 commissioners from the Judicial Service Commission, had to adjourn early after…

Hunt for new chief justice begins as Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku will retire in February 2017

Posted on October 16, 2016October 16, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku’s tenure of office ends February next year and the Judicial Service Commission has started hunting for his replacement. His successor is expected to assume office on March 1, next year.The JSC is inviting interested candidates to apply for the position of the Chief Justice to be advertised in the media, starting tomorrow.“ The Judicial Service Commission announces that a vacancy of Chief Justice of the Republic of Zimbabwe will arise…

‘One ‘lazy’ judge only handed one judgement while another handed 100 judgments in a year’-Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku

Posted on October 1, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku has once again slammed some High Court judges for being “lazy” and creating a backlog, with one judge only handing down two judgments last year while other judges had written more than 300. Justice Chidyausiku hit out at Justices Samuel Kudya, Alphas Chitakunye and Priscilla Chigumba for failing to conclude cases during their interviews to be considered for elevation to the Supreme Court on Thursday. It merged that Justice Kudya had…

‘High Court judge, , reportedly solicited a $20 000 bribe from one of the parties in a case she was presiding over’

Posted on September 30, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

High Court judge, Justice Priscilla Chigumba, reportedly solicited a $20 000 bribe from one of the parties in a case she was presiding over, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) revealed yesterday. JSC chairman and Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku, said they were considering referring the case to President Mugabe for him to set up a commission to look into it. This came out during an interview in which, Justice Chigumba was one of eight High…

Tomana Bid To Have Retired Or Foreign-based Judge Preside In His Dispute with JSC Thrown Out

Posted on May 12, 2016May 12, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

PROSECUTOR-General Johannes Tomana yesterday lost his bid to have his dispute with the Judicial Service Commission presided over by a retired or a foreign-based judge. The High Court dismissed his application for referral of the matter to the Constitutional Court. In the dismissed application, Tomana had raised constitutional issues, chief among them being that serving judges of the High Court would not handle his case fairly.Tomana is seeking to block the JSC from continuing with proceedings that…

Churches Across Zimbabwe Defiant Over Forced Recitation Of National Pledge By Children

Posted on May 2, 2016May 2, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

CHURCHES said yesterday that the national pledge will not be recited at their schools when schools open for the second term tomorrow. Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku last Thursday dismissed the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights’ urgent interdict to stop the reciting of the national pledge paving way for the government to implement the national pledge policy.Chief Justice Chidyausiku in his chambers threw out the urgent application but directed the registrar of the Constitutional Court to set…