On 14 June 2013, I granted the applicant leave to file an additional supporting affidavit in the matter which was before me; an application for rescission of judgment and upliftment of bar. Advocate Mpofu for the first respondent immediately expressed displeasure with my ruling and sought leave to appeal to the Supreme Court against the interlocutory order I had granted. I granted the applicant leave to appeal and indicated that I will give my reasons for allowing the filing of an additional supporting affidavit by the applicant. I now proceed to do so. More
On 22nd May 2006 I issued a Provisional Order in favour of the applicants. I have now been requested to furnish reasons for judgment by the second and third respondents. These are they.
This matter was initially set down for hearing before me on 2nd May 2006. At the hearing I directed that the matter be stood down to Friday to allow the respondents to file heads of argument as Mr Drury on behalf of the applicants had filed heads of argument. On the 5th May the respondents were not ready and the matter was rolled over to the following... More
This is an application for a mandatory interdict wherein the applicants seek eviction of unspecified persons allocated residential stands by the first respondent in an area adjacent to or near Shayabvudzi Business Centre, located to the western side of Hamandishe business complex, within the Chirumhanzu District. For convenience, I shall refer to this area as “the premises” throughout this judgment. The applicants see More
The applicant seeks an order compelling 1st respondent to consent to the cancellation of a mortgage bond No. 2181/2004. The mortgage bond was registered in 1st respondent’s favour in 2004. The mortgage bond was securing a loan that the 1st respondent advanced to the applicant in the same year. The founding affidavit was deposed to by Agnes Danda, by virtue of a special power of attorney granted to her by the applicant. More
This is an appeal against refusal of bail. It arises out of a ruling handed down by the Regional Magistrate sitting at Harare, on 29 May 2024, during initial remand proceedings wherein the appellant was brought before the court on charges of robbery, as defined in s 126 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] (“the Criminal Law Code”). More
