Faculty of Law e-Theses Collection: Recent submissions
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Corporate rescue under insolvency act [chapter 6:07] : Progress but some puzzles.
(2020)The new Insolvency Act (Chapter 24:03) replaced judicial management as a business rescue strategy with corporate rescue proceedings. For most of its existence, judicial management had been criticised on many grounds and ... -
Addressing genocide through international humanitarian law response mechanisms : A case study of Rwanda
(2020)This study investigated the fabric of international humanitarian law response mechanisms, given the obtaining status quo wherein a lot of „grave‟ breaches to humanitarian concerns are manifest, an aspect largely attributable ... -
A human rights centered approach to labor law : analysing international labor law to address the decent work deficit in Zimbabwe
(2019)The convergence of international norms targeted at individual protection formulates part of the most substantial advances of modern international law. The consideration herein is two-fold with international labor law on ... -
Protecting minority shareholders in Zimbabwe: fundamental corporate-law concepts versus investor confidence
(2022)The advent of the new millennium saw the downfall of the Zimbabwean Economy. Many Companies closed down. The rate of formation and advancement to operationalize of new companies was lower than that of companies ceasing ... -
Judicial review in cases concerning the constitutionality of the presidential statutory powers.
(University of Zimbabwe, 2022-07)The research traces and analyses the Zimbabwean jurisprudence in cases dealing with the constitutionality of the Presidential Powers (Temporary Measures) Act. It identifies five Zimbabwean cases which dealt with the ... -
The impact of urban expansion into peri-urban communal areas on rural women’s land Rights: A case study of Seke Communal Area, Zimbabwe
(University of Zimbabwe, 2017)The author of this dissertation is a lawyer with a background of a rural upbringing and is very alive to the embeddedness of rural women’s lives in land for livelihoods and fosters a desire to improve their land rights. ... -
Using women's voices and experiences to interrogate the efficacy of the International Criminal Justice System (ICJS): The case of the Rwanda 1994 Genocide.
(2019-10-01)This study analyzes the interactions between the International Criminal Justice System (ICJS) and survivor witnesses of conflict related sexual violence (CRSV) committed during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. It focuses on ... -
A legal analysis of the constitutional right to basic education in Zimbabwe and South Africa
(2019-10)The year 1990 was a momentous year with world countries agreeing for the first time, through the World Declaration on Education for All, 1990, (World Declaration) that basic education was the type of education which would ... -
The policy legislative framework for Zimbabwe's fast track land reform and its Implications on women's rights to agricultural land
(2018-03)This study explores the rights of Zimbabwean women to access agricultural land on the basis of equality with men and in their own right under the country’s Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP). The focus is on the ... -
“Judicial management as a business rescue scheme” A critique of the effectiveness of judicial management as a rescue scheme
(2018-02)The main thrust of the study was to ascertain the effectiveness of judicial management procedure as a corporate rescue scheme. Thus the research unraveled the shortcomings of the laws of insolvency in light of the ... -
The doctrine of constitutional avoidance as a nemesis to public interest and strategic impact litigation in Zimbabwe: Thesis, antithesis and synthesis
(2018-02)The case of Zinyemba v Minister of Lands and Rural Settlement, CCZ 3/16 clearly set the pace for the Constitutional Court’s use of the doctrine of constitutional avoidance. Since then, the Court’s judges have invoked the ... -
Protected but exposed: A critique of the right to privacy and reporting of domestic violence cases in the media
(2017-02)In Zimbabwe, when complainants of domestic violence apply for a protection order from the civil court the cases are reported in the media. Media reports identifies the victims by name. This study seeks to analyse the ... -
The impact of urban expansion into peri-urban communal areas on rural women’s land Rights: A case study of Seke Communal Area, Zimbabwe
(2017)The author of this dissertation is a lawyer with a background of a rural upbringing and is very alive to the embeddedness of rural women’s lives in land for livelihoods and fosters a desire to improve their land rights. ... -
We need it now! Interrogating the concept of an open prison for female inmates with children in Zimbabwe
(2017)This dissertation is about realising equality for female inmates in the Zimbabwean prison system; it identifies that there is only one open prison1 for male inmates yet female inmates, especially those with children and ... -
Can restorative justice be an alternative form of justice to retributive justice in the criminal justice system in Zambia? A critical analysis of Section 8 of the Criminal Procedure Code Chapter 88 of the laws of Zambia
(2017-07)In view of the growing prison population and the government’s inadequate budgetary funding to the Prisons Service, various options have been explored to find solutions to the problem. The study focuses specifically at the ... -
Gender and social security in Zimbabwe: An analysis of the efficacy of social security for women with disabilities in the informal sector
(2017-07)This dissertation interrogates the provision of and access to social security from a gendered perspective with particular reference to women with disabilities in the informal sector in Zimbabwe. This is an area of great ... -
An analysis of the law and the effectiveness of government and non governmental organisations’ interventions in curbing under age commercial sex work in Epworth and along the Mukuvisi river bank Harare, Zimbabwe
(2017)Child prostitution has become a global phenomenon which raises concern and alarm. In Zimbabwe children as young as eight years old are engaging in prostitution in the area along the Mukuvisi River and in Epworth, Harare. ... -
Challenges affecting women in the informal sector developing their businesses in Zanzibar: A study of women in the Cosmetic Industry
(2017)This dissertation provides a detailed study of the challenges affecting women in the informal sector in developing their businesses; particularly in cosmetic industry in Zanzibar. Several methodologies and data collection ...