TheApplicantshave approached this court on an urgent basis in terms of Rule 59(6) of the High Court Rules, 2021 seeking the relief of a declaratory order in terms of Section 14 of the High Court Act [Chapter7:06]. In particular, the applicants pray for the following relief:
“1. The Application for a declaratur be and is hereby granted.
2. That the amendment of Section 5.1 of the firstrespondents does not require that representatives of the Council appointed in December 2020 to be removed from their appointments before the end of their term of office.
3. The appointments by first to eighthrespondent... More
1. That it be and is hereby declared that the Conditions Precedent set forth in Part 9 of the Scheme of Arrangement have not been complied with.
2. That it be and is hereby declared that Applicant’s bid cannot be terminated on the basis that was accepted by the members and creditors of the Target Companies upon completion of the relevant tender process and that there is no legal justification for any payment obligations to be triggered by the Applicant before the Conditions Precedent of the Scheme of Arrangement are satisfied.
3. That it be and is hereby declared that... More
This is a court application in which the Applicants are seeking an order that the following matters: HC 2480/20, HC 2942/20, HC 3004/21, HC 2896/21 and HC 2875/20 be consolidated. That application besides exciting a counter-application has since been concluded by consent and resulted in the consolidation of matters HC 2480/20 and HC 2942/20, as the other matters have fallen by the way-side for one reason or another. Zhiqiang Gao and GUIBIAO ZHANG have sought the consolidation of HC 2480/20, HC 2942/20 and HC 4303/21 in a counter application and that counter application is opposed. More
The first plaintiff is the Baptist Convention of Zimbabwe, a duly constituted common law universitas of religious discourse capable of suing and being sued in its name. The second plaintiff is Ngezi Baptist Church, an affiliate member of the first plaintiff, and also a voluntary religious association capable of suing and being sued in its own name. All the defendants are the members of the Ngezi Baptist Church (second plaintiff) who sought to be dissociated with the governing body which is the Baptist Convention of Zimbabwe (first plaintiff) after the first plaintiff made certain amendments to its Constitution. More
The English phrase which reads ‘Let sleeping dogs lie’ carries a lot of meaning with it. Whoever coined the phrase as such must have done his homework. He must have applied his mind to the same. He must, in my view, have realised that, when a person calls at another’s home and finds the dogs at the residence in a sleeping mode, the risk of him being bitten by them is less where he allows them to continue to enjoy their sleep than when he does anything which disturbs their sleep. He must have realised that the moment that he... More
