This matter was placed before the court as an urgent court application in terms of r 59(6) of the High Court Rules, 2021. The application was accompanied by a certificate of urgency justifying the extraordinary circumstances under which it was brought before the court. The periods within which further affidavits and heads of argument were to be filed, were accordingly truncated with the consent of counsel. The applicant seeks the following relief against the respondent: More
The applicant filed a chamber application seeking the following relief as set out in its draft order;
“TERMS OF FINAL ORDER SOUGHT
That the respondents show cause to this Honourable Court on the return date why a final order not be granted in the following terms
(a) That the 1st respondent shall not remove for sale the applicant’s property attached on 17th November, 2015 without further instructions from the 2nd respondent.
(b) That 1st respondent pays costs of suit.
TERMS OF FINAL ORDER GRANTED
Pending the determination of this matter, the applicants are granted the following relief:
1. That the... More
This is an urgent chamber application for an order directing the respondents or any person acting on their behalf to return the property seized at the applicant’s premises on 14 November 2017. The applicant also seeks an order interdicting the respondents or any persons acting on their behalf from demanding from the applicant’s employees the passwords of the computers seized by the police and threatening to arrest the employees. More
The plaintiffs approached this court seeking an order declaring the will of the late Chitsamatanga, dated 26 May 2000, null and void, that the testator died intestate and an order for costs.
The basis for the order being sought is that at the time the testator executed the will, he was not in a mental state to execute a valid will as he was aged 86 and was senile.
Alternatively the testator could not appreciate the nature of his actions as he had high visual impairment. This necessitated that the will be read to him and he could have been... More
[1] The germ seed of the dispute before me is foreign currency, an indispensable enabler of local and in particular, international trade and commerce.
[2] This resource is also regulated, and quite stringently too, by a compendium of instruments. These range from primary and subsidiary legislation, a raft of directives, measures and circulars, to periodic policy statements by treasury and the central bank. This background forms part of the wider discretionary considerations relevant to the resolution of the present dispute. More
