In this divorce trial, the main issue centres on whether plaintiff is entitled to a 50% share of immovable property known as 316 Ard Na Lee Close, Glen Lorne, in Harare. The claim is against the back drop of nearly four years of marriage to the plaintiff. The parties married in November 2017 and the separated in September 2021. More
On 27 October 2021, the parties argued an application for a joinder before me, and I granted the order sought by the applicant. The brief background is that there is matter under HC 3170/18, which is before this court. On 3 October 2019, the parties appeared before Justice Tagu, who struck that matter (HC 3170/18) off the roll and ordered that an application for joinder of the applicant be filed. The dispute in HC 3170/18 concerns two properties, namely, Stand 48 Aspindale Park Township of Subdivision A of Aspindale Park of Subdivision A and B of Lochinivar, measuring 100,3134 hectares,... More
This is an application for a spoliation order. The draft order reads as follows-
“TERMS OF FINAL ORDER SOUGHT
That you show cause to this Honourable Court why a final order should not be made in the following terms;
1. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd Respondents be and are hereby interdicted from interfering in any manner with the Applicant’s business operations at the tuck shop situated at Gateway Primary School including but not limited to barring her potential customers from buying from the tuck shop.
2. The1st, 2nd and 3rd Respondents be and are hereby ordered not to unlawfully evict... More
On 13 March, 2023 the plaintiff issued provisional sentence summons against the defendants, jointly and severally the one paying the other to be absolved, for payment to her of the total sum of USD100 000 together with interest at the prescribed rate calculated from 1 February, 2023 to the date of full payment together with legal costs which are at attorney and client scale. She based her claim on two acknowledgements of debt which the defendants signed on 22 January, and 27 February, 2023 in terms of which the latter agreed to repay to her on 31 January 2023 the... More
In the magistrate’s court the respondent sued the appellant for payment of a sum of money said to represent the purchase price for certain farm machinery and equipment sold by the respondent to the appellant but for which the appellant had not paid. The appellant entered an appearance to defend. That was just about the only proper document filed for the appellant throughout the course of this whole case. More
