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 :

Property Law – Commercial & Contract Law – Media Law

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Graduated from Cape Town University with a B.Proc and was admitted as a legal practitioner in 1983 and as a partner in Atherstone & Cook in 1984.  She specialises in property law, including sectional title law, and company, commercial and contract law.  She also has had vast experience in media law, particularly the law of defamation affecting newspapers and individuals, including criminal defamation, and is considered the leading expert in Zimbabwe on defamation. She is an experienced conveyancer of immovable property and has considerable experience in commercial litigation.