Judgement Reserved In Daily News Case
Reporting by ZimJournalists Arise
Additional Reporting by Zimbabwe Independent

Judgement has been reserved in the matter between the Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ) and the Media and Information Commission.
According to last week’s Zimbabwe Independent, High Court judge Anne-Marie Gowora moved it to next week after MIC lawyer Mercy Chizodza said she needed to take instructions from the media regulatory body on some issues.

The Daily News is arguing that a properly constituted committee that the late information Minister Tichaona Jokonya had said he was going to appointed to decide on the matter, could not be set up because the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act didnot provide for that.

Advocate Eric Matinenga who was representing the Daily News, Monday, says this has not been done since March last year, and therefore the Daily News should be allowed to start publishing.

Earlier this year the High Court ruled that the MIC was compromised by bias from hearing the ANZ’s case.