The Judiciary - and the Zimbabwean Constitution - Edited by James Tsabora

Special thanks go to the authors of the various chapters for their careful critiques of the state of the law and their analysis of the determinations made by the judiciary in relation to the interpretation and implementation of the provisions of the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No 20.) Act 2013 (2013 Zimbabwe Constitution). [...] The sixteen chapters of this work cover a wide spectrum of issues from the function and role of the judicial arm of the State in promoting and achieving the objectives of the Constitution to independence of the judiciary both institutional and at the level of the individual judicial officer. [...] Crucial to the discharge of this duty is that the courts be and be seen to be independent…the separation required by the Constitution between the Legislature and Executive, on the one hand, and the courts, on the other, must be upheld, otherwise the role of the courts as an independent arbiter of issues involving the division of powers between the various spheres of government, and the legality of. [...] 66See also The Council of Europe’s Recommendation on the Independence of Judges, the Beijing Statement of Principles of the Independence of the Judiciary in the LAWASIA Region and the Universal Charter of the Judge. [...] 79See also, Article 10 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights(1948); Article 7 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights(1981); the UN Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary(1985), the Beijing Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary(1995), the Latimer House Guidelines on the Independence of the Judiciary(1998), the Universal Principles of Judicial Independenc.