Sino Zimbabwe Cotton Holdings (Pvt) Ltd v Patrick Dzingai

[2016] ZWLC 220

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Case Details

Court

Labour Court

Date

22 April 2016

Citation

[2016] ZWLC 220

Judgment No.

LC/H/220/16

Outcome

unknown

Case Type

Review

Bench

Presiding

F C Maxwell

Full Bench

F C Maxwell

Areas of Law

Labour lawArbitration review

Keywords

arbitral award reviewprocedural defectappeal vs reviewdismissal dispute

Key Issues

{"issue_text":"Whether the application for review was the correct procedure when attacking the merits of an arbitral award","issue_type":"procedural","dispositive":"yes","related_facts":"Applicant's grounds of review attacked arbitrator's factual findings"}

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Background

The respondent, an area manager, was dismissed after disciplinary proceedings where he was convicted on five of six charges including inflating cotton buying prices and employing ghost workers. He referred the dispute to arbitration which ruled in his favour. The applicant sought to review the arbitral award on grounds that the arbitrator misdirected himself on the facts.

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