The background facts to this urgent chamber application are as follows:
The three respondents were elected members of the National Assembly in the 2008 general elections. They were elected under the ticket of their party the MDC and were dully sworn in as members of Parliament for Nkayi South, Lupane East and Bulilima East constituencies respectively. They were subsequently expelled from the party and their membership of parliament terminated at the behest of the party. More
The applicants seek leave to appeal against the judgment of this court granted under case HH 273-12 (HC 8542/10). In that case the applicants raised a point in limine in which they sought to rely on the provisions of r18 of the Rules of Court to preclude the respondent (then applicant) from pursuing an application against the first applicant on the ground that prior leave of this court had not been obtained. I dismissed that preliminary issue and granted leave for the applicants to file their opposing papers so that the matter could be determined on the merits. More
This is an application for leave to appeal against the judgment of the magistrate courts wherein the Regional Magistrate J Mabeza Esquire sitting at Gwanda Regional Court acquitted three respondents on certain charges which I will set out in detail later. The applicant was dissatisfied with the acquittals and filed this application for leave to appeal against the judgment of the convicting court on 9 February 2016. Regrettably the record of the application was misfiled. The record has since been located. I also wish in this regard to acknowledge the efforts of the applicant’s representative who in the meantime supplied... More
In this appeal, the Prosecutor General pursuant to an order for leave to appeal having been granted by a judge of this court on 19 August, 2014, noted an appeal against the acquittal of the respondent by the Regional Magistrate Eastern Division on 26 April, 2012. The respondent then a 58 year old Israel National was charged on two counts of statutory contraventions. In the first count the respondent was charged with a contravention of section 3 of the of the Precious Stones Trade Act, [Chapter 21:06]. More
