The applicants brought an application for a declaratory order on the legality of the respondent’s debt collection activities. The first applicant is a body corporate established to regulate and protect the legal profession and all activities that fall under the legal profession’s mandate in Zimbabwe. The second applicant is a ratepayer in Harare who was served with a letter of demand from the respondent. The first respondent is a debt collector. More
This is an application for the deregistration of the respondent from the applicant’s register of Legal Practitioners, Notaries Public and Conveyancers in terms of s 28 (1)(c)(i) of the Legal Practitioners Act [Cap 27:07]. The application has had a long winding circuitous route starting from 22 March 2002 to date. However, although the application was filed in 2002, the respondent was out of the country and only returned in 2003. It is only then that the application became active. More
When I received the urgent chamber application, I set down the matter and the parties appeared before me on 13 June 2022. The matter was postponed by consent to 29 June 2022 subject to some directions. I ordered the first and second respondents to file their opposing affidavits no later than 16 June 2022. The applicants were to file their answering affidavit by 20 June 2022, and file their heads of argument no later than 23 June 2022. I then directed the first, second and third respondents to file their heads of argument by 28 June 2022. I made no... More
The plaintiff runs a tour operator company under the style of LED Travel and Tours (Pvt) Ltd. The first defendant owns Douglas Car Sales (Pvt) Ltd and he also owns the second defendant. The present feud between the parties has its genesis in matters of football and partnership.
When the first defendant, in 2008, found it difficult to run the second defendant due to financial constraints, he intimated to the plaintiff that he was thinking of either selling the second defendant’s franchise or seeking a partnership in order to lessen the financial burden bedevilling him. The two subsequently concluded a... More
