The plaintiff caused a Summons to be issued out of this Court claiming cancellation of a lease agreement of a 20-tonne Roundebult Excavator, payment of USD51 450.00 being arrear rentals, holding over damages calculated at the rate of USD 250.00 per week with effect from the 16th of October 2022, interest at the prescribed rate from the date of Summons to the date of full and final payments and costs of suit on a higher scale. The defendant defended all the claims. More
The first applicant is a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange. The second to fifth applicants are Zimbabwean companies duly incorporated in terms of the laws of Zimbabwe. They are wholly owned subsidiaries of the first applicant. The second to fifth applicants are holders, of registered mining claims, in the Chiadzwa diamond mining area of Manicaland. Their claims have been subjected to cancellations and litigation over such cancellations. The claims were declared valid by HUNGWE J in HC 6411/07. The respondents appealed against that decision to the Supreme Court, were the appeal is still pending. More
Having been indicted on a charge of fraud or alternatively, contravening the Precious Stones Trade Act [Cap 21:06] the accused applied to quash the charges on the basis that they do not disclose an offence. More
On 23 October 2013, on the unopposed roll, provisional sentence was granted in favour of the plaintiff against the defendant in the sum of USD$8 000 000, 00 (eight million United States Dollars), together with interest thereon at the prescribed rate of 5% per annum calculated from 29 December 2010 being the due date of the Promissory Note to the date of payment in full, as well as costs of suit. The order was granted after hearing full argument by counsel for both parties. The court granted the order on the basis that the signature on the Promissory note had... More
The Plaintiff issued a summons out of this Court against the Defendants claiming against them jointly and severally one paying, the other to be absolved, US$130 000.00 being an amount payable by the Defendants to the Plaintiff in terms of a settlement agreement entered into by and between the Plaintiff and the Defendants on 8 October 2020, interest at the prescribed rate from 21 October 2020 to the date of full payment and costs of suit on a legal practitioner and client scale. More
