Borrowdale billboard: Second lawyer dumps clients

THE two company directors accused of erecting an illegal billboard in Borrowdale, Harare, denigrating a property development company have been dumped by their new lawyers, becoming the second one to dump them and resulting in the postponement of trial.

Mark Strathen of Paragon Printers and Grant Russell of Fairclot Investments were supposed to stand trial before magistrate Sharon Rakafa, but their lawyer Gwinyai Mharapara renounced agency after the magistrate dismissed an application for postponement.

Mharapara had filed an application for postponement saying he paid for the record to be transcribed so that he is fully apprised of the matter before trial.

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