CONSTITUTION OF ZIMBABWE as amended by Amendment No. 17
(b) the Judge President of the High Court who shall, subject to the directions of
the Chief Justice, be in charge of the High Court;
(c) such other judges of the High Court as may from time to time be appointed.
(3) The Chief Justice may, from time to time, after consultation with the Judge
President of the High Court, appoint a judge of the Supreme Court to act as a judge of
the High Court.
(4) No law, other than a disciplinary law, shall confer jurisdiction in criminal matters upon a court or other adjudicating authority, other than the Supreme Court or
the High Court, which did not have such jurisdiction before the appointed day:
Provided that the provisions of this subsection shall not apply to a law which confers any such jurisdiction on a court in terms of which the only penalty that may be
imposed by the court is a monetary one.
(5) An Act of Parliament may provide for the conferring, by way of rules of court,
upon a registrar of the High Court, duly appointed thereto, of the jurisdiction and
powers of the High Court in civil cases in respect of—
(a) the making of orders in uncontested cases, other than orders affecting
status or the custody or guardianship of children;
(b) deciding preliminary or interlocutory matters, including applications for
directions but not including matters affecting the liberty of the subject:
Provided that any such Act of Parliament shall provide for the right of any person
who is aggrieved by the order or decision of any such registrar to have the order or
decision reviewed by a judge of the High Court who may, on such review, amend,
vary, set aside or confirm the order or decision concerned or give such other order or
decision as he deems fit.
[Subsection as inserted by section 9 of Act 1 of 1983 - Amendment No. 3]
[Section as substituted by section 3 of Act 25 of 1981 - Amendment No. 2]
82 Qualifications of judges
(1) A person shall not be qualified for appointment as a judge of the Supreme
Court or the High Court unless—
(a) he is or has been a judge of a court having unlimited jurisdiction in civil or
criminal matters in a country in which the common law is Roman-Dutch or
English, and English is an official language; or
(b) he is and has been for not less than seven years, whether continuously or
not, qualified to practise as a legal practitioner—
(i) in Zimbabwe:
(ii) in a country in which the common law is Roman-Dutch and English is
an official language; or
(iii) if he is a citizen of Zimbabwe, in a country in which the common law
is English and English is an official language.
[Subsection as amended by sections 4 and 13 of Act 25 of 1981 - Amendment No. 2]
(2) In computing, for the purposes of subsection (1)(b), the period during which
any person has been qualified to practise as a legal practitioner—
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