The facts giving rise to this application are mainly common cause. The applicant and the respondent were formerly husband and wife. A decree of divorce was granted in this court on 5 August 2010. The applicant has approached this court alleging that the respondent is in contempt of this order and applies for relief in the following terms: More
On 23 June 2014 the first respondent issued summons out of the magistrates’ court against the appellant, as the first defendant, and the secondrespondent, asthe second defendant, jointly and severally, one paying the other to be absolved. More
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
