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Tsvangirai lawyers' hearing set for January 22nd
26 Dec 2013 at 01:06hrs | Views
Hearing in the contempt of court trail of lawyers representing Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai in fighting the July election outcome has been set for the 22nd of January 2014.
In his judgment, Justice Chinembiri Bhunu ordered the arrest and prosecution of the lawyers representing the former Prime Minister after they made statements criticising the court.
Justice Bhunu ruled that the conduct of the lawyers was meant to bring the court's integrity into disrepute saying such conduct cannot be tolerated by the court.
The lawyers - Aleck Muchadehama, Tarisai Mutangi and Advocate Lewis Uriri - allegedly attacked the court and made an application seeking an urgent order for the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to release election material used during the July 31st election.
The year 2013 saw the Constitutional Court bombarded by several applications which were centred on the holding of elections.
Initially, it was one Jealousy Mawarire who made a constitutional application seeking the court to compel President Mugabe to proclaim the date for holding of the harmonised elections.
The land mark ruling saw the MDC-T making counter applications to delay the holding of elections.
After the elections, applications were made in the Electoral Court with candidates including the MDC-T leader challenging the election results.
In his judgment, Justice Chinembiri Bhunu ordered the arrest and prosecution of the lawyers representing the former Prime Minister after they made statements criticising the court.
Justice Bhunu ruled that the conduct of the lawyers was meant to bring the court's integrity into disrepute saying such conduct cannot be tolerated by the court.
The lawyers - Aleck Muchadehama, Tarisai Mutangi and Advocate Lewis Uriri - allegedly attacked the court and made an application seeking an urgent order for the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to release election material used during the July 31st election.
The year 2013 saw the Constitutional Court bombarded by several applications which were centred on the holding of elections.
Initially, it was one Jealousy Mawarire who made a constitutional application seeking the court to compel President Mugabe to proclaim the date for holding of the harmonised elections.
The land mark ruling saw the MDC-T making counter applications to delay the holding of elections.
After the elections, applications were made in the Electoral Court with candidates including the MDC-T leader challenging the election results.
Source - zbc
