CHAIRMAN, PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION & ORS v ZIMBABWE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION & ORS 1996 (1) ZLR 637 (S)

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Administrative law — tribunals and officials — Public Service Commission — whether courts may review exercise of powers of Commission on the basis of gross unreasonableness

Constitutional law — Constitution of Zimbabwe 1980 — Public Service Commission — powers of Commission — whether Commission had acted intra vires its powers in terms of the Constitution in cancelling the bonus payable to public servants — whether cancellation of bonus amounted to retrospective legislation — nature of relationship between public servants and their employer — whether Commission had entered into contract to pay bonus and whether had breached contract — s 16(1) — protection against compulsory acquisition of property — cancellation of bonus payable to public servants — not an acquisition of anything by the State

Public service — Public Service Commission — legislative powers of — nature of such powers — whether Commissionempowered to reduce or cancel bonus payable to public servants — public servant — contract of employment — nature of contract between public servant and employer

Real rights — vested and contingent rights — distinction between