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: On 18 September 2018 the applicant filed a court application for review seeking the following relief spelt out in the draft order: 1. The decision of the first respondent in which she made an order for the rescission of default judgment in court case number 127/18 in favour of second respondent be and is set aside. 2. The application of second respondent for rescission of default judgment be remitted for rehearing before a different magistrate. On 28 September 2018 the second respondent filed its opposing papers. More

Mr James Stewart Drynan (Applicant) filed a court application for review seeking the following relief. “Having heard the applicant in person and documents filed of record, it is ordered that: 1. The decision of the 1st respondent in civil case 1150/18 be and is set aside. 2. The second respondent’s summons in civil case 1150/18 be and is hereby dismissed.” More

This is an application for condonation for late filing of notice of appeal against a judgement handed down at Rusape magistrate court on 20 June 2018 where the court a quo granted an interdict to the application and ordered her not to encroach with the respondent’s plot 5 Lot 1 Chimbi Source and barring applicant from interfering with farming activities of the respondents at that plot. Appellant was also ordered to remove her structures she had erected in plot 5 forthwith. More

Applicant, 32 years old, was convicted of 2 counts of stock theft and sentenced to 18 years imprisonment. He appealed against conviction and sentence and the appeal is pending before this court. He now applies for bail pending appeal. The application is opposed by the State. On 27 May 2022 I dismissed the application and on 22 June 2022 applicant’s legal practitioners requested written reasons for the dismissal. More

The appellant was convicted at Mutare for contravening s 93 (1) (b) that is kidnapping or unlawful detention, it being alleged that on Saturday, 6 August 2019 at Zuva Service Station, near Mutare Polytechnic, Mutare, the appellant lifted and carried Pressly Tafara Mubaiwa, a juvenile, on shoulders and attempted to put him in the boot of a Toyota Runx. He had pleaded not guilty and he was sentenced to 24 months imprisonment. 6 months imprisonment was suspended for 5 years on the usual conditions of future good behaviour. More