This is an appeal against the whole judgment of the High Court declaring the agreement of sale between the appellant and the respondents valid and binding on the basis that the appellant had the requisite mental capacity to contract and granting the consequential relief of eviction of the appellant. More
This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court (the court a quo) delivered at Harare on 15 January 2020 under judgment number HH 26/20. At the conclusion of argument on 21 July 2020 the court issued the following order with reasons to follow:
“IT IS ORDERED THAT:
1) The appeal succeeds to the extent that the relief granted by the court a quo is set aside and substituted with the following:
(a) Judgment is granted in the sum equivalent to US$58 500 in RTGS calculated at the prevailing interbank rate.
(b) Interest on the said amount in... More
This is an appeal against the judgment of the Labour Court dismissing an appeal against an arbitrator’s award. The arbitrator, having found the respondent’s initial purported dismissal and every measure taken by the appellant thereafter to have been unlawful, ordered the appellant to reinstate the respondent to her position or pay her damages in lieu of reinstatement. More
Before ZIYAMBI AJA, in chambers in terms of r 5 of the Rules of the Supreme Court, 1964.
[1] This application is brought in terms of ‘Rule 63 as read with Rule 449 (1)(a) of the High Court Rules’ 1971 for condonation of the late noting of an application for rescission of a default judgment given in chambers by MAVANGIRA JA in chambers on the 13 July 2017. More
The appellant appeals against the dismissal of his appeal against conviction and sentence by the High Court (“the court a quo”) on 21 May 2019. On 11 July 2016, the appellant was convicted by a Regional Magistrate (the trial court) at Harare of one count of rape. He was sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment of which 4 years imprisonment was suspended for 5 years on the customary conditions of future good conduct. Dissatisfied, he unsuccessfully appealed to the court a quo, against both conviction and sentence. More
