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Harare Bureau
TWENTY-TWO candidates aspiring to fill nine vacant positions of High Court judges appeared before the Judicial Service Commission panel as the public interviews entered their second day yesterday.
At least 35 candidates have been shortlisted for the interviews after one withdrew.
Chief Justice Luke Malaba is presiding over the three-day interviews, which began on Monday.
The candidates are required to answer four standard questions from the Chief Justice to test their understanding of the law, their preparedness and competencies to work as judges of the High Court.
Other commissioners can interview them.
Most of the candidates were seemingly struggling to answer basic questions including issues to do with themselves and their know-hows of the operations of the superior courts.
Justice Rogers Manyangadze who has garnered enough layers of experience sitting on the magisterial and Labour Court bench acquitted himself well showcasing his judicial intelligence coupled with an impressive record of disposing matters expeditiously.
Justice Manyangadze said he felt it was time for him to leave the Labour Court to a court of unlimited jurisdiction to broaden his exposure.
“Labour Court is a specialised court dealing with one area of law as distinct from the High Court, a court of unlimited jurisdiction that deals with far more different areas of law than the Labour Court,” he said.
Justice Manyangadze said given his track record he was ready to unleash his sterling performance at the High Court bench.
“Given the track record I have established where I am now I am confident that the trend would continue even in the High Court.
“It is a simple matter of understanding issues and cases coming before me and exerting myself to the workload consistently in that court. I believe that level of performance will not diminish but improve.”
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