Practice Area:

Employment & Labour Law – Constitutional & Administrative Law – Corporate & Commercial Law

Work Experience:

Rudo graduated from the University of Zimbabwe in 2010 with a University Book Prize and the Law Society of Zimbabwe Book Prize for her outstanding academic achievements. In June 2012, she was awarded the Cambridge-Commonwealth Shared Scholarship to read for a Master in Law with the University of Cambridge (UK) where she specialized in international law. She is a human rights expert having worked in this field since 2008. She worked for the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum between 2008-2012. In June 2012, she was awarded the Cambridge-Commonwealth Shared Scholarship to read for a Master in Law with the University of Cambridge (UK) where she specialized in international law. In 2014, Rudo joined Scanlen & Holderness as an Associate. And was admitted to partnership in January 2019. She possesses extensive experience in the following relevant areas:

• Extensive experience in constitutional and human rights litigation
• Legal Analysis of Prisons Act-Zimbabwe and drafting model Prisons Bill
• Legal research on bill of rights introduced by the constitution in 2013
• Position papers on alignment of the 2013 constitution with national laws
• Paper on the justiciability on ESC Rights in Zimbabwe
• Drafting an anti-torture Bill for Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum to be presented in Parliament as a Private Member Bill
• Drafting constitutions for private organisations
• Analysis of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission Act
• Analysis on the gaps in law and practices relating to pre-election environment in Southern Africa
• Extensive experience in local and international advocacy including ACP-EU, UPR, SADC and African Commission.

David Takura is a multi faceted, pragmatic legal practitioner. He holds an LLb from the University of Zimbabwe. He has extensive prosecutorial experience gained from both the lower and superior courts. For him criminal law is a passion paralleled with excellent execution. This culminated in a Master of Science Counseling Psychology degree from the Great Zimbabwe University. With an enlightened appreciation on the complexities of human behavior the law is applied clinically to better the lives of ordinary individuals. A broad appeal to a cross section of different cultures has finely honed his negotiation and dispute resolution skills. He has a keen interest in the divergence of mental well-being and the law which traverses areas of family law, divorce, and gender based violence, disadvantaged and vulnerable communities’ rights. He has a budding practice poised for growth in fields of Property Law and Conveyancing. David Takura is a registered Notary Public and Conveyancer.

Prince is a 2014 University of Zimbabwe graduate. He has a special interest in labour law emanating from his trade union background and experience. Prince also majors in civil litigation both in the inferior and superior courts where his work includes but is not limited to legal drafting, legal advise, arbitration and advocacy

Practice Area:

Labour Law

Work Experience :

Brighton obtained his LLB degree form Midlands State University. He is also a registered Conveyancer and Notary Public. He joined the firm straight from Law School as a legal intern in October 2014 and became an Associate in April 2015. An avid reader and researcher with an eye for detail, Brighton is passionate about Labour Law and has written articles in this area of the law. He regularly writes articles for Midlands State University Law Review Journal. Brighton is also becoming an impressive litigator with a thorough approach to litigation. He also has a keen interest in Commercial, Corporate, Banking, Family, Conveyancing, Insurance and Mining law. In his spare time, Brighton enjoys playing tennis and reading.