IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF ZIMBABWE
HELD AT HARARE
CASE NO CCZ 79/2014
In the matter between:-
LOVENESS MUDZURU
FIRST APPLICANT
RUVIMBO TSOPODZI
SECOND APPLICANT
AND
THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE, LEGAL &
PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS
FIRST RESPONDENT
MINISTER OF WOMEN'S AFFAIRS,
GENDER & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
SECOND RESPONDENT
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF ZIMBABWE
THIRD RESPONDENT
APPLICANTS' HEADS OF ARGUMENT
A.
GENERAL
1.
This clearly, is an important case that will stretch this Court's
imagination but among other things, we will allow this revolutionary
Court the Constitutional Court, to lay and define a marker with
regards to the following issues:~
(a) The approach to interpreting the Bill of Rights;
(b)The Court's treatment of children's rights and more importantly
gender rights;
(c) The Court's treatment of the key subject of equality and
discrimination;
(d)The adoption and absorption an application of international law
and international instruments in Zimbabwe.
2.
Put simply, this case allows the Constitutional Court and g1ves the
same an opportunity of being bold, and setting up a constitutional
trajectory or DNA in these early stages of the Constitution where the
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Applicant's Heads of Argument in the matter between:
Loveness Mudzuru & Another v Minister of Justice Legal & Parliamentary Affairs & 2 Others
Case Number CCZ 79/2014
Prepared by Tendai Biti Law