DISTRIBUTED BY VERITAS TRUST Tel: [263] [4] 794478 Fax & Messages [263] [4] 793592 E-mail: veritas@mango.zw Veritas makes every effort to ensure the provision of reliable information, but cannot take legal responsibility for information supplied. [5] In his award, the arbitrator found that there was no basis for Judgment the reinstatement of the No. SC 31/18 Civil Appeal No. SC 553/13 respondent on a permanent basis. He found that the respondent had been offered an extension of his contract of employment by the Chief Executive Officer and that the Chief Executive Officer had the authority to do so. He therefore accepted that the respondent had a legitimate expectation that his contract would be extended to August 2014 when the Harare Agricultural Show was to take place. He accordingly ordered that the respondent be paid all his wages and benefits up to 31 August 2014. PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE LABOUR COURT [6] Dissatisfied with the award, the appellant appealed to the Labour Court on three grounds. The first was that the arbitrator had erred in finding that legitimate expectation had been established. Secondly, that the court erred in finding that the respondent was entitled to remuneration beyond 31 March 2014 when his contract expired. Thirdly, that the arbitrator erred in finding that, by terminating the contract on notice prior to its expiry, the contract had been improperly terminated. [7] The appellant, in its heads of argument before the Labour Court, submitted that since the contract of employment had been terminated before it had run its full course, there could have been no question of legitimate expectation because it is only upon its expiry without incident that the respondent may have entertained such expectation. It further submitted that there was no evidence that someone else had been engaged in the place of the respondent and the arbitrator had made no finding in this regard. [8] In his submissions before the same court, the respondent stressed that he had been offered an extension by the then Chief Executive Officer. He further argued that, 3