On April 19 2016 the applicant issued summons against the respondents, claiming as against the first respondent, the sum of US$ 4, 660 117.49 being the amount due and payable in respect of work carried out by it at first respondent’s main campus at Masvingo. It also claimed interest on that sum at the prescribed rate plus costs of suit on a legal practitioner and client scale and collection commission calculated in terms of the Law Society By Laws of 1982 as amended by SI 157 of 2014.
The background facts to this matter are summarized More
Gam Plastic (Pvt) Ltd (Gam) is situate at 30 Bristol Road in Workington, Harare. The three respondents collectively hold 50.19% shareholding in Gam. More
The plaintiff sued the defendant claiming $4 777 070 388-00 (old currency) for loss of profits suffered by the plaintiff with interest at the prescribed rate from the date of summons to date of final payment. The defendant denied liability for any loss the plaintiff may have suffered as alleged in the plaintiff’s summons and declaration. More
The brief background to this matter is that the applicant is in occupation of stand No. 10138 Whitecliff South, Harare by virtue of a lease agreement between her and the third respondent. The lease has been running since 1st December 2012 and it gives the applicant the option to purchase only when the third respondent has valued the property and make an offer to the applicant to purchase. No offer has been made so the applicant cannot exercise any right of option either to accept or refuse. Her status remains than of a lessee. More
The appellant herein issued summons out of the magistrates’ court claiming an order for division of “matrimonial property”. In a document headed “Plaintiff’s Declaration” the plaintiff averred that the parties were customarily married in 1996 and were blessed with three children. He averred that the parties’ union had irretrievably broken down with the parties living separately albeit in the same house. He averred that there were no prospects of a reunion as they were no longer affording each other conjugal rights. He further averred that it would be just and equitable if the listed property acquired during the subsistence of... More
