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
This is an application for summary judgment in which the applicant claims payment of the sums set out in the draft order which sums the first and second respondents acknowledged by acknowledgment of debt signed on 15 October 2010. More
This application is made in terms of r 236 (3) of the High Court of Zimbabwe Rules, 1971 on the basis that the respondents have not prosecuted an application which they filed in HC 4700/16 within the time provided by the rules. For that reason, the applicant seeks a dismissal of that application for want of prosecution. More
This is an opposed chamber application in which the applicant seeks to register an arbitral award dated 14 June 2023 as an order of this Court in terms of Article 35 of the Model Law (First Schedule to the Arbitration Act [Chapter 7:15]. The award was made in favor of the applicant (claimant in the arbitration) against the two respondents. After this application was filed, the respondents instituted a separate application in this Court (under case HC 5436/23) to set aside the same award. The set-aside application is premised on several grounds, chief among them that the award is contrary... More
