Rhodesian High Court’s Ruling On Constitution
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) SALISBURY, September 13. The Appellate Division of the Rhodesian High Court has decided that Mr lan Smith’s Government is the only de jure (rightful) one, and that the 1965 Constitution is the country’s only Constitution.
The Appellate Division has dismissed the appeals of 32 Africans who have been sentenced to death.
The basis of their appeals was the decision of the Privy Council in London to the effect that Mr Smith’s Government and all its actions were illegal.
The Africans were condemned for bringing arms into the country.
When they were on trial, the authority of the Privy Council, the highest appeal tribunal in the British Commonwealth, was rejected. Mr Justice Harold Davies
told the Court that in his view, Rhodesia’s courts were no longer bound by the Privy Council’s decisions. The case was then taken to the appeal judges in the Appellate Division o fthe Rho desian High Court.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31784, 14 September 1968, Page 13
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