This is an application for the registration of an arbitral award. It is opposed. The facts are fairly common cause. The applicant was a former employee of the respondent. The respondent had terminated her contract of employment. She had considered the termination unlawful and had referred her case to a labour officer for conciliation in terms of s 93 of the Labour Act, [Cap 28: 02] [the Labour Actor the Act]. More
1. In this court application, the applicant approached the court seeking relief on an urgent basis for a declaration that the CCC Party’s office bearers and main organs elected on 26 My 2019 expired on 27 May 2024 and that the decision made by the disciplinary committee constituted of office bearers whose tenure of office had expired to expel him from the party is null and void liable to be set aside. The declaratur was brought in terms of s14 of the High Court Act [Chapter 7:06] as read with rule 59 (6) of the High Court Rules,2021. In the... More
This is an application to interdict the first respondent from building and erecting structures on the applicants’ property commonly known as Stand Number 2745 Zizalisari, Mount Pleasant Heights, Harare. More
MOYO J: This is an urgent chamber application wherein the applicant seeks the following interim relief:
1. The respondent teachers’ unions together with their members who are teachers be and are hereby interdicted from boycotting classes until the return date when this matter will be finalized.
2. All the 1st to 5th respondents’ members who are teachers be and are hereby ordered to report for duty consistently within 48 hours of the granting of this order.
3. In the event that 1st to 5th respondents members refuse to or fail to comply with the order in paragraphs 1 and 2... More
The application before this court is one for rescission of default
judgment.
The salient facts are as follows: The first and second applicants are directors of a company named Plastech Design (Pvt) Ltd. The respondent herein successfully sued Plastech Design (Pvt) Ltd for a debt due to the respondent in case number HC 13679/12. The debt was for an amount of US$51 140.67. The respondent executed against Plastech Designs (Pvt) Ltd but they failed to recover the judgment debt. The respondent then sued the 1st and 2nd Applicants in their personal capacity for the US$ 51 140.67 owed to the... More
The applicant Hippo Valley Estates Limited is a Sugar Cane Miller obliged by law to accept sugar cane from growers for milling at its mills. The first respondent in almost all the cases owned farms or settlements on which the rest of the respondents claimed to have been resettled by the government.
The respondents delivered sugar cane to applicant for milling. After having accepted the sugar cane for milling the applicant was faced with two competing claims; from the 1st respondents and from the rest of the respondents. It was in these circumstances that the applicant instituted these interpleader proceedings More
This is an appeal against the judgement of the High Court in Case No. HC 5569/17 in which the High Court dismissed an urgent chamber application seeking the stay of the appellant’s detention, which was ordered by the Commissioner -General of Police (the second respondent), pending the finalisation of an application for review by the High Court of the proceedings before the single trial officer (the first respondent). More
In this opposed application for review, applicant is seeking an order for the setting aside of both the conviction and sentence imposed on him by the respondents, the permanent stay of the prosecution of his offence in violation of paragraph 34 of the schedule to the Police Act [Chapter11:08], and cost of suit. More
This is an application for a declaratur. The applicants want this Honourable Court to make a declaration that the refusal or failure to reinstate the applicants to the Police Service by the respondents be and is hereby declared to be unlawful, wrongful, and that the respondents be ordered to pay costs of suit on a punitive scale. More
The applicant, former member of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), is seeking an order to be reinstated into the ZRP and for payment of costs on the attorney-client scale. The application is opposed by the respondents. More
Plaintiff, an incola, issued summons in April 2004 against first and second defendants both peregrine, claiming damages arising out of a motor vehicle collision that occurred in Harare on 8 February 2004. In early 2006 the defendants raised special plea to the jurisdiction of the court. That special plea was upheld. On April 2006 plaintiff made a chamber application in terms of which on 10 October 2006, this court issued an order attaching certain of second defendant’s mechanical horses and trailers specified in the order. On 1 December 2006, plaintiff withdrew the proceedings in HC 4819/04 and filed the present... More
On 17 April 2019 the High Court handed down a judgment in which it issued the following order: -
1. The order of this Court granted on 12 December 2018 under Case No. HC 7399/18 acquitting the applicants namely Sesedzai Munobvanei and Mhondiwa Nyamande under CRB MRWP 944-5/18 at the close of the State case was made in error and is hereby rescinded.
2. For the avoidance of doubt, the trial magistrate shall proceed with the trial forthwith by putting the applicants on their defence as already ordered by this Court under Case No HH748/18
3. This judgment shall be... More
On the 11th March 2016 the applicant filed in this court, an application for condonation of late noting of his application for rescission. The respondent opposed the application. I will deal with the application under the subtitles “Delay” and “Prospects”. More
The first applicant is a member of the House of Assembly for Mbizo Constituency in Kwe Kwe. The second applicant is also a member of the House of Assembly for the Redcliff Constituency. Both applicants were arrested on the 18th January 2019 on allegations of subverting a constitutional Government as defined in section 22 (b) as read with section 22 (1) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act (Chapter 9:23). In the alternative the applicants are charged with inciting public violence in contravention of section 187 (1) as read with section 36 (1) of the Criminal Code. The applicants... More
