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POCOCK v AFC 1995 (2) ZLR 365 (S)

1995 (2) ZLR p365

Citation

1995 (2) ZLR 365 (S)

Case No

Judgment No. S-208-95

Court

Supreme Court, Harare

Judge

Gubbay JA, McNally JA & Ebrahim JA

Heard

13 November 1995

Judgment

23 November 1995

Counsel

D P Carter for the appellant
A J Dyke for the respondent

Case Type

Civil appeal

Annotations

Link to case annotations

Flynote

Evidence — document — written statement made at relevant time — Civil Evidence Act [Chapter 8:01] — s 27(4)(b) — whether or not the person making statement has incentive, or might have been affected by the circumstances, to conceal or misrepresent any fact

Prescription — interruption — acknowledgement of indebtedness by legal practitioner of debtor — whether prescription interrupted by such acknowledgement

Legal practitioner — conduct and ethics — impropriety — whether unethical to prolong negotiations knowing that opponent unaware of looming prescription

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