Magistrates Court (Periodical Regional Court) (Mutoko) Notice, 2024
Mutoko is appointed as a place for holding a periodical regional court in Mashonaland East, so serious cases from the area can be heard locally on a circuit basis.
The Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs has appointed Mutoko as a place for holding a periodical regional court in Mashonaland East Province.
A periodical regional court is a circuit arrangement: a regional magistrate sits at the appointed place from time to time rather than the court being permanently established there. Regional courts handle the more serious criminal matters that an ordinary magistrates court cannot.
For people in Mutoko and the surrounding districts this means those cases can be heard locally instead of requiring accused persons, complainants and witnesses to travel to a distant regional court centre.
The notice does not set a commencement date, a sitting schedule or the districts to be served. Note that Mutoko was subsequently appointed as a place for holding a full regional court by S.I. 116 of 2024, gazetted on 19 July 2024, which supersedes the circuit arrangement made here.
What changed
- Mutoko is appointed as a place for holding a periodical regional court in Mashonaland East Province
Who this affects
- residents of Mutoko and surrounding Mashonaland East districts
- regional magistrates sitting on circuit
- legal practitioners and prosecutors in Mashonaland East
- accused persons and witnesses in serious criminal cases
Plain-language summary — not legal advice. Always read the full instrument.