This is an application for condonation of the late noting of an appeal. It does not state the rule of this Court in terms of which it is made, a situation not helped by the failure in both the body of the application and the draft order sought, to advert to the need to extend the time within which to appeal. It is common cause that the time within which to appeal lapsed long back. More
1. This is an appeal against the whole judgment of the Electoral Court sitting in Bulawayo dated 29 August 2019. The court granted a declaratory order sought by the first and second respondents (‘the respondents’)that the appellant’s election was in contravention of the Electoral Act [Chapter 2:13] and as a result set aside the appellant’s election as councilorfor Ward 3 in Bulawayo More
This is an application for condonation for non-compliance with Rule 38 of the Supreme Court Rules, 2018 and extension of time within which to file and serve a notice of appeal. More
This is an appeal against the whole judgement of the Labour Court handed down on the 26 January 2018. At the end of the hearing in this matter we issued an order in these terms, and indicated that full reasons thereof would follow in due course: -
“1. The appeal is allowed with costs.
2. The judgement of the court a quo is set aside and substituted with the following: -
(i) The application for review be and is hereby granted with costs.
(ii) The decision of the respondent placing the applicant on retirement is set aside.
(iii) The applicant... More
When this matter was called Mr Bhatasara, counsel for the appellant, applied to amend the grounds of appeal. Mr Mutasa, who appeared for the respondent, was not averse to the application. The matter was stood down to allow counsel to confer on the proposed amendments. When the matter resumed the parties indicated that they had agreed on the amendments. The grounds were as a consequence amended by consent. More
