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This is an application for a spoliation order. There is a lease agreement between the parties. The lease agreement dates back to 2011. Sometime in 2014 there was an attempt to evict the applicant from the premises but this court in 2018 granted absolution from the instance which resulted in the applicant remaining in occupation of the premises. The premises in question are commercial. More

The applicant has approached this court on an urgent basis seeking the following relief:- “TERMS OF FINAL ORDER SOUGHT That you show cause to this Honourable Court why a final order should not be made in the following terms:- (a) First and second respondents be and are hereby interdicted from removing or disposing of any stock of goods from Bay 1 of Number 483 Hawthorn Road, Lochnivar, Harare until finalisation of ownership dispute. (b) First and second respondents be and are hereby ordered to return forthwith 70 (seventy) boxes of floor tiles removed by the respondents from Bay 1 of... More

This is an application for custody and sole guardianship of a minor child. Applicant is the biological mother of three minor children subject of this matter. First respondent is the biological father. The minor children were born on 1 October 2009, 30 June 2012 and 1 May 2017, out of a marriage contracted on 3 August 2015. Applicant stated in the founding affidavit that the first respondent and herself started staying together as husband and wife in terms of an unregistered customary law union in 2008. Divorce proceedings are pending and the issue of the custody of the minor children... More

The applicant invoked r 348A of the High Court Rules 1971 to stop the sale in execution of a dwelling house scheduled for 16th March 2018 that was purportedly attached on the 28th of February 2018 by the second respondent acting under the instructions of the first respondent. The attached property is a piece of land situate in the district of Salisbury called Stand Number 48 Emerald Hill Township 2 of Stand 26 B Emerald Hill measuring 2002 square metres. More

On 27 February 2021, the applicants lodged an urgent chamber application, whose provisional order reads: “INTERIM RELIEF GRANTED That pending the confirmation or discharge of this provisional order, the applicants are granted the following relief: 1. The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th respondents be and are hereby ordered, upon service of this order, to immediately restore to the 1st applicant access, possession and/or occupation of the 6th respondent’s business premises, namely, Stand 524 Cleveland, Mutare Road, Msasa, Harare, and 1st applicant’s offices located therein, failing which, the Sheriff of the High Court be and is hereby authorised to assist... More