This is an application to compel respondents to supply applicant with further and better particulars. The factual background is that the applicant was served with summons in the main matter under HC 3415/15. Before the dies induciae had expired, applicant filed a request for further particulars, which particulars were duly supplied. Subsequently, the applicant did not file a plea or some answer to the claim as required by the rules. Instead, it filed yet another request for further and better particulars. The respondents refused to supply those particulars arguing that they were purely evidential in nature. More
This is an application for bail pending trial. The application is opposed. The applicant is facing allegations of contravening section 189 as read with section 47 of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act (Chapter 9:23) that is attempted murder. Applicant faces a second count of malicious damage to property in contravention of section 140 of the Code. He faces a third count of unlawful entry into premises in violation of section 131 (2) of the Code and a fourth count of assault as defined in section 89 of the Code. Applicant denies the allegations and avers that he was... More
This is an application for condonation of late filing of an application for setting aside an Arbitral Award in terms of Article 34 of the Arbitration Act Chapter 7:15. Both parties travelled an arduous journey to reach where they are today. Numerous judgments by this Court and the Labour Court were penned by different Judges. After a protracted dispute concerning the appointment of an impartial arbitrator to quantify the damages earlier on awarded by Mr M. L. Sibanda, the Registrar of this court was ordered to appoint an Arbitrator from his roll – See HC 1271/19. More
TAKUVA J: This is an application for condonation for late noting of appeal.
After hearing argument I dismissed the application. Subsequently a request for reasons was filed by the applicant’s legal practitioners.
These are they.
The applicant was arraigned with three others before a Regional Magistrate sitting at Tredgold on allegations of contravening section 126 of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act Chapter 9:23. The state’s allegations were that on 13 March 2018 the appellant and his accomplices went to house No. 115 Mahatshula South Bulawayo where they pretended to be police officers on duty. They later produced a... More
This is an application for condonation of the late noting of an application for review by the applicants of the decision of the juvenile court. This matter appeared before me on the motion roll of the 18th of November 2021 and I declined to grant the order for the simple reason that, no case had been made for the relief sought. The applicants have since requested for written reasons and here are the reasons. More
