Zimbabwe Informal Sectors Organisation and Mfundo Mlilo v The Minister of Health and Child Care

Key Issues

• {"issue_text":"Whether the first applicant has legal personality to institute proceedings","issue_type":"procedural","dispositive":"yes","related_facts":"The first applicant is a trust but claimed to be a common law universitas"}
• {"issue_text":"Whether the applicants have locus standi to institute the proceedings","issue_type":"procedural","dispositive":"yes","related_facts":"The first applicant is not a legal person and the second applicant's case is parasitical"}
• {"issue_text":"Whether the High Court has jurisdiction to grant the interim relief sought","issue_type":"procedural","dispositive":"yes","related_facts":"The applicants sought suspension of a statutory instrument and a declarator of constitutional invalidity"}
• {"issue_text":"Whether the interim relief sought is competent","issue_type":"procedural","dispositive":"yes","related_facts":"The relief was couched as interim but was capable of final application"}

Background