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Yeukai Karengezeka
Court Correspondent
THE trial of gospel musician Ivy Kombo and her husband Admire Kasi failed to resume again for the fourth time after Kasi was reported to be unwell.
The trial was postponed by consent to be on a continuous criminal court roll from August 14 to 15.
Kasi, who was issued with a warrant of arrest for failing to appear in court last week, had it cancelled on Tuesday before Harare regional magistrate Mrs Marehwanazvo Gofa.
Last month, the defence lawyers wrote to the District Public Officer Mr Tafara Chirambira advising him to delay summoning High Court judge, Justice Sylvia Chirawu-Mugomba, as a witness as they intended to make several applications.
However,prosecutor Mr Anesu Chirenje opposed the application.
The presiding magistrate Mrs Feresi Chakanyuka then ruled that trial was supposed to resume and all parties should be present on the dates laid down.
The couple is accused of fraudulently acquiring legal conversion certificates without writing the examinations, up to eight, needed by those qualifying outside the country to practice law in Zimbabwe.
They are being jointly charged with suspended Council for Legal Education director Huggins Hardwork Duri.
The trial is expected to continue with the State leading Justice Chirawu-Mugomba in the witness stand. Her testimony might mark the end of the State’s case.
Justice Chirawu-Mugomba is the chairperson of Council for Legal Education who is alleged to have written a letter authorising the couple to be exempted from writing the conversion examinations which, as they were trained in Britain, the couple would have to write all eight subjects.
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