By Own Correspondent| The registrar of the Constitutional Court has refused to accept some of the legal documents from MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa’s lawyers which were filed on the 15th of August 2018 arguing that the documents were not filed on time.

According to the registrar, the reason why the documents were rejected was the expiry of dies induciae (the number of days that a party in a legal proceeding has to file documents).

Read the letter from the registrar:

15 August 2018
Atherstone and Cook
Applicant’s Legal Practitioners
Praetor House
119 J Chinamano Avenue
Harare

RE: ATTEMPTED FILING OF DOCUMENTS AFTER EXPIRY OF DIES INDUCIAE

Reference is made to the above matter.

There are documents that were left at the Registry by Advocate Hashiti on 15 August 2018 which documents were not issued by the Registrar.

After consultation with the Chief Justice, a decision was made that these documents could not be accepted.

Please kindly come and collect your documents. After our numerous phone calls to Advocate Hashiti, he indicated that he would send someone to collect them and he still has not done so.

REGISTRAR – CONSTITUTIONAL/SUPREME COURT

cc – Chief Justice

Addressing the media Monday morning, Chamisa could not be drawn to comment on the pending poll petition and court procedures to date revealing that he was “happy” with the process.