10th Floor, Nyumba House Njila Avenue LUSAKA Advocates for the Plaintiff Rule 20 affidavit to be headed in the court and in the cause or matter. Caption will read e.g. AFFIDAVIT OF SERVICE, AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OF ….. Full name, trade/profession, residence and nationality of the deponent i.e. The Affidavit will start: I, Peter Bwalya, of the City and Province of Lusaka in the Republic of Zambia do hereby make OATH and say as follows: That my full names are as stated above. That I reside at Plot No. 1234; Cairo Road, Lusaka as aforesaid. That I am a Zambian national (or a Zambian by nationality). That I am an accountant by profession, employed by Zambia Breweries. The affidavit must be written in the first person i.e. “I” and in consecutively numbered paragraphs. Alterations, erasures etc. must be attested by the commissioner for oaths. For example: I am a Zambian by nationality The commissioner may refuse to swear witnesses and require that the affidavit be re-written e.g. if illegible. [But don’t as a lawyer draw up an affidavit as such or one with many alterations etc. Do another one!!] Deponent can mark with his thumb. The commissioner must witness. Jurat format – the jurat must not be on a separate sheet If the last paragraph of the affidavit is at the end of the page push it to the next so that the jurat appears under it. The jurat must state where and when it was sworn or affirmed. If sworn outside Zambia it must be sworn before a Notary Public (i.e. a lawyer of over ten years who, in Zambia
10th Floor, Nyumba House Njila Avenue LUSAKA Advocates for the Plaintiff Rule 20 affidavit to be headed in the court and in the cause or matter. Caption will read e.g. AFFIDAVIT OF SERVICE, AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OF ….. Full name, trade/profession, residence and nationality of the deponent i.e. The Affidavit will start: I, Peter Bwalya, of the City and Province of Lusaka in the Republic of Zambia do hereby make OATH and say as follows: That my full names are as stated above. That I reside at Plot No. 1234; Cairo Road, Lusaka as aforesaid. That I am a Zambian national (or a Zambian by nationality). That I am an accountant by profession, employed by Zambia Breweries. The affidavit must be written in the first person i.e. “I” and in consecutively numbered paragraphs. Alterations, erasures etc. must be attested by the commissioner for oaths. For example: I am a Zambian by nationality The commissioner may refuse to swear witnesses and require that the affidavit be re-written e.g. if illegible. [But don’t as a lawyer draw up an affidavit as such or one with many alterations etc. Do another one!!] Deponent can mark with his thumb. The commissioner must witness. Jurat format – the jurat must not be on a separate sheet If the last paragraph of the affidavit is at the end of the page push it to the next so that the jurat appears under it. The jurat must state where and when it was sworn or affirmed. If sworn outside Zambia it must be sworn before a Notary Public (i.e. a lawyer of over ten years who, in Zambia