The background facts to this matter are outlined by the applicant as follows. The 1st claimant leases a farm owned by the 2nd claimant. In 2018 it entered into a finance agreement with Honeytech Investments Pvt Ltd (the 1st claimant) in terms of which the applicant extended to the 1st claimant a loan in the sum of US$384 000.00. The 1st claimant was obliged to utilize the finance to plant a barley crop. The 1st claimant planted the crop and delivered to the applicant 730.30 tons of barley valued at US$444 022.40. More
The plaintiff issued summons against the defendants claiming US$26 924.00 being monies due and payable to it in respect of beverages supplied on credit. More
This is a special case in terms of Rule 52 of the High Court Rules, 2021. According to the agreed facts the first defendant acted in breach of contract when they diverted the plaintiff’s funds from the plaintiff’s bank account to their personal accounts. This breach of contract happened between 3 November 2016 and 19 February 2019 and the terms of contract breached are outlined in paragraph 7 of the agreed facts. Paragraph 11 of the same facts also show that the defendants also admitted liability and paid the plaintiff the amount due in RTGS at the rate of 1:1... More
This is an unusual application. The applicant is the purported defendant in a contested action filed by the respondent as plaintiff in this court HC 8956/10. A pre-trial conference was held and the action referred to trial on a set of issues that were agreed between the parties before a judge. More
The applicant seeks a declaration of invalidity in respect of additional income tax assessments for the tax years ended 2019 and 2020. It also seeks another declaration of invalidity of the additional value added tax [VAT] assessments issued against it by the respondent for the period March 2019 to October 2021. It claims costs of suit on an attorney and client scale against the respondent. More
