Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation v Named Retrenchees

JUDGMENT NO. LC/H/223/2019

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Case Details

Court

Labour Court

Date

10 June 2019

Citation

JUDGMENT NO. LC/H/223/2019

Neutral Citation

[2019] ZWLC 223

Judgment No.

LC/H/223/2019

Outcome

unknown

Case Type

Application

Bench

Presiding

Makamure J

Full Bench

Makamure J

Areas of Law

Labour LawCivil Procedure

Keywords

retrenchmentUS DollarsZimbabwe Dollarfunctus officioprescription

Key Issues

{"issue_text":"Whether the Labour Court has jurisdiction to quantify a judgment delivered 14 years earlier","issue_type":"procedural","dispositive":"yes","related_facts":"Court became functus officio in 2005; application filed in 2019"}
{"issue_text":"Whether the claim has prescribed","issue_type":"procedural","dispositive":"yes","related_facts":"More than three years have passed since the original order"}

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Facts of the Case

Background

The applicants sought to have the Labour Court quantify a 2005 judgment in US Dollars, fourteen years after the original order was issued in Zimbabwe Dollars. The respondent raised preliminary exceptions based on prescription and the court being functus officio.

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