LIST OF LEGISLATION AND CASES REFERRED TO
Legislation and Legal Instruments
African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, 1990
Children’s Act [Chapter 5:06]
Children’s Amendment Bill, 2017
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No. 22 on the Right
to sexual and reproductive health (2016)
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), General Comment No. 15 on the Right of the
child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health (2013)
Constitution of Zimbabwe (1979)
Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 20) Act of 2013
Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23]
Customary Marriages Act [Chapter 5:07]
Education Act [Chapter 25:04]
Education Amendment Bill, 2019
Marriage Act [Chapter 5:11]
Marriages Bill, 2018
Medicines and Allied Substances Control (General) Regulations, 1991, Statutory Instrument
150 of 1991
Public Health Act [Chapter 15:17]
Termination of Pregnancy Act [Chapter 15:10]
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989
Cases
Brend v Wood (1946) 62 TLR 462 (England)
CKW v Attorney General & Director of Public Prosecutions [2014] eKLR Petition No. 6 of 2013
High Court (Kenya)
Kamowa v Republic [2017] MWHC 26 (Malawi)
Kayira v S [2015] MWHC 432 (Malawi)
Lejony v The State (2000) 2 BLR 145 CA (Botswana)
Manewe v The State (2005) 1 BLR 276 (Botswana)
Mudzuru & Anor v Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs & Ors CC 12-15
(Zimbabwe)
Republic v Goliat and Jonasi [1971 – 72] ALR (MW) 251 (Malawi)
R v K [2001] 3 All ER 897 (England)
R v Prince (1875) LR 2 CCR 154 (England)
R v Tolson (1889) 23 QBD 168 (England)
S v CF (A Juvenile) HH 143-11 (Zimbabwe)
S v Juvenile (RPS) HH 18-03 (Zimbabwe)
S v LC (A Juvenile) HH 34-14 (Zimbabwe)
S v Masuku HH 106-15 (Zimbabwe)
S v Mharapara HMA 26-17 (Zimbabwe)
S v Nare 1983 [2] ZLR 135 (Zimbabwe)