[Bill-Watch] Court Watch 11/2014 of 10th July [Public Interviews of Judges: Correction of Court Watch 10/2014]

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COURT WATCH 11/2014
[10th July 2014]
Correction of Omission from List of Current Supreme Court Judges
in Court Watch 10/2014
Apologies to Justice Antonia Guvava
Court Watch 10/2014 dated 8th July supplemented information about the
forthcoming interviews of candidates for appointment to the Supreme Court
with a paragraph headed The Gender Factor which included a list of current
Supreme Court judges and commented on gender balance in the court.  
The list omitted the name of Justice Antonia Guvava, who was appointed to
the court in July 2013.  Veritas apologises to Justice Guvava for this
error.
Below we set out a corrected version of the paragraph, with Justice Guvava's
name included in the list of judges and the figures adjusted to show a
Supreme Court membership of ten, five of whom are women, and a proposed
increase to thirteen judges in all.  
The comment on the scope for appointment of one or more women remains
unchanged.
The Gender Factor
One of the national objectives stated in the Constitution is full gender
balance in Zimbabwean society in general; one of the elements of gender
balance is equal representation of both genders in all institutions and
agencies of government at every level, including judicial institutions such
as the Supreme Court [Constitution, Chapter 2, section 17].   Both the JSC
and the President must be guided by this objective and have regard to it
when considering these appointments; "guidance" and "regard" are the words
used in the Constitution [section 8].
The Supreme Court currently has ten judges, five of them women: 
1.           Hon Godfrey Chidyausiku, Chief Justice
2.           Hon Luke Malaba, Deputy Chief Justice
3.           Hon Vernanda Ziyambi
4.           Hon Elizabeth Gwaunza 
5.           Hon Paddington Garwe
6.           Hon Rita Makarau [currently seconded to the Judicial Service
Commission as full-time Acting Secretary]
7.           Hon Anne-Marie Gowora
8.           Hon Ben Hlatshwayo
9.           Hon Bharat Patel
10.       Hon Antonia Guvava
As the present appointment exercise aims at increasing the total Supreme
Court membership to thirteen, there is scope for the appointment of one or
more additional women to the court.
Comment:  The JSC itself is not a model of gender balance.  Of its current
ten members only two are women. 
 
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