NYONI v SECRETARY FOR THE PUBLIC SERVICE, LABOUR AND SOCIAL WELFARE & ANOR 1997 (2) ZLR 516 (H)

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Administrative law — natural justice C -observance of rules of- extent of — delay in administrative action — remedies for — review — grounds for — unreasonableness as a ground of review — scope of — whether includes allegation of insufficiency of evidence to support finding of fact

Public service — public servant — discipline — suspension — proper method of — maximum period — allegation that servant's acts caused financial prejudice — meaning — reinstatement — whether necessarily to be ordered where misconduct proceedings irregular — delay whether necessarily entitles suspended party to reinstatement

Review — grounds — irregularity — delay in instituting disciplinary proceedings — whether delay may constitute a reviewable irregularity — whether delay necessarily entitles suspended party to reinstatement — unreasonableness when established — decision having no basis in evidence may be good ground for review — reinstatement of employee dismissed irregularly — when may be ordered