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This is an urgent application for stay of execution of a writ of execution issued pursuant to the judgment granted in Case No. HC 8103/14. The writ was issued to enable the second respondent to recover the taxed costs awarded in HC 8103/14. The applicant has instituted a court application under case No. HC 4856/17 for review of the taxation of the costs. The relief in casu is being sought pending the determination of that application for review. The application is opposed by the second respondent. More

On 17 February 2016 the first respondent was granted judgment against the applicant for, inter alia, payment of a sum of US$3 872 123.00 together with interest thereon at the prescribed rate calculated from 28 February 2013 to the date of payment in full, and costs of suit on the legal practitioner and client scale. The first respondent subsequently had his bill of costs taxed. The taxing officer allowed a sum of US$205 602.00. Pursuant to the taxation of the bill of costs the first respondent caused a writ of execution to be issued on 23 May 2017. On 31... More

The applicant is the executor testamentary to the estate of the late Anthony Joseph Levey who died in Ireland on 21 May 2007. More

This is an application for condonation for late noting of an appeal. The applicant was convicted of eight counts of armed robbery and ten counts of attempted robbery. He was found to have been on a car-jacking spree between 14 and 30 April 2003 in Bulawayo in the company of some foreigners. He was sentenced on 20 January 2006 as follows: “Counts 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10 – five years imprisonment (each count). Counts 4 and 9 as one for sentence - five years imprisonment Total 45 years imprisonment. Of the total of 45 years imprisonment... More

The applicant is employed by the respondent as a revenue officer. The dispute between the parties relates to the alleged non-payment of the applicant’s salary by the respondent. The basic facts of the dispute are common cause. The respondent as part of its staff development has a policy wherein employees are permitted to improve themselves academically or otherwise. To that end they may take study leave on conditions which are laid out in a document called “ZMIRA Staff Training and Development Policy”. The policy document provides for study leave of a maximum thirteen days in a calendar year. This type... More