On the last day of hearing of this application, I delivered an interim order pending the determination of the present application to the effect that:
“That pending the handing down of the judgment under this urgent chamber application, the 1st and 3rd Respondents are hereby directed to stay execution of judgment under HC 5790/22 against the applicant.” More
The application is for a declaratory order to declare that an arbitral award handed down by the arbitrator, the first respondent, on 9 November, 2012, is incompetent, void and therefore unenforceable. More
The respondent is a former employee of the applicant. His contract of employment was terminated. The papers filed in this matter show that the Labour Court dismissed his appeal and upheld the termination of the contract of employment. The respondent according to the papers in this matter, has instituted proceedings for leave to appeal against the judgment of the Labour Court. More
What remains standing out as the only defence which the respondent is clutching to, as if life itself depends on it, in resisting this application for summary judgement in the sum of $31 238-00 in statutory dues, is that the applicant should have supplied the further particulars it requested on 27 October 2015 to particularise how the sum claimed is arrived at and the basis for claiming interest from January 2014. That interesting state of affairs was achieved after Mr Chiwara for the respondent and myself had exchanged notes as a result of which he promptly abandoned the other three... More
