Supreme Court · 28 December 1980

Shamwana v Attorney-General (S.C.Z. Judgment 35 of 1980) [1980] ZMSC 35 (28 December 1980)

Transitional deeming preserved a pre-Independence emergency declaration; Presidential detention orders are prima facie valid, detainee bears burden to show otherwise. Flynote Constitutional law — detention — transitional and deeming provisions preserving pre-Independence emergency declaration — s.7 Zambia Independence Order construed as producing a s.29(1)(b) declaration; Presidential detention orders prima facie valid; burden on detainee to adduce prima facie case; failure to furnish grounds within prescribed period raises presumption of non-existence ab initio; lengthy police interrogation not alone sufficient to establish invalidity Read full summary

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