The plaintiff and the defendant married each other at Chipinge on 25 January 2002. They were married in terms of the Marriages Act [Cap 5.11]. In her evidence the defendant told the court that they initially contracted a customary union in 1990, which they upgraded by entering into the subsequent civil marriage. More
At the conclusion of the trial in this matter, and after the two defendants virtually abandoned their defences to the plaintiffs’ claims, I entered judgment in favour of the plaintiffs and said the reasons for doing so would follow. These are they. More
This is an appeal against the decision of the Respondent’s Appeals Committee which upheld the dismissal of the Appellant on charges of assaulting a fellow employee.
Facts of the case are that, on 30th March 2010 Appellant who was in the employ of the Respondent company as a Quality Assurance Manager came into contact with one Marlon Muponda a General Hand also employed by the Respondent Company in circumstances where it was concluded that she assaulted Marlon. More
The respondent’s counsel applied for upliftment of the automatic bar and for condonation for late filing of Heads of Argument on behalf of the second respondent. She said the second respondent was initially represented by another law firm which renounced agency on 7 November, 2013. The second respondent himself deposed to an affidavit to the effect that he had encountered difficulties with his previous lawyers who were not working on the case while at the same time unwilling to give him his file until 7 November, 2013when they eventually did so. The applicant opposed the application but in the interests... More
Appellant was dismissed from Respondent’s employment as a data capture clerk on allegations of contravening the Respondent company code of conduct. He appealed to the internal appeal structures without success. He has now appealed to this court against both the guilt verdict and the dismissal penalty which were confirmed by the Respondent’s internal appeals body. More
This is an application for rescission of a default judgment issued on 28 April 2011. The back ground is that respondent issued summons on 30 November 2010 in Case No. HC 8728/10 against applicant claiming the sum of $6 369.35 together with interest at the prescribed rate from July 2010 to date of payment in full. More
