Practice Area:

Family Law – Human Rights Law – Constitutional Law Litigation  – Property Rights Law – Commercial Consultancy – Criminal Litigation 

Work Experience :

Doug Coltart is a registered Legal Practitioner with the High Court of Zimbabwe who holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Cape Town. He has written widely on human rights and constitutional law in Zimbabwe and his work has been referred to by the Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe. He previously worked at Gill, Godlonton & Gerrans Legal Practitioners in Harare before moving to the United States for several years, where he worked for an international non-profit organisation on issues of constitutionalism and democratic governance in Zimbabwe and other African countries.

Upon his return to Zimbabwe in 2017, he joined Mtetwa & Nyambirai where his main areas of interest are constitutional law, human rights litigation, and general civil and criminal litigation.

Practice Areas:

Company and Commercial Law – Estate Administration – Property Law – Mining Law

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1976 and 1978 with degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws.  He was admitted as a partner in Atherstone & Cook in 1982 and specialises in company and commercial work, both litigious and non-litigious.  He has had considerable experience in drafting commercial contracts. He is also very experienced in dealing with trusts, wills and the administration of deceased estates (he is a registered Estate Administrator), and has much expertise in property law and in the conveyance of immovable property; and latterly, with mining law and conducting due diligences on behalf of banks and other financial institutions. He also deals with matrimonial matters.