This appeal was heard and finalised on 20 October 2016 when we delivered an ex tempore judgment. The appellant has requested for the written reasons for our disposition. More
The applicant approached the court seeking an order for specific performance which would be occasioned by registration of a Deed of Settlement as an order of this court. The respondent opposed the application on mainly two grounds that the order would be incapable of performance due to financial constraints and secondly that the immovable property referred in the deed of settlement belonged to a 3rd party. More
This is a matter in which plaintiff instituted action against the first, second, third, fourth and fifth defendants claiming against all the defendants jointly and severally the one paying the others to be absolved payment of (a) the sum of $79 371.94 (b) interest on the sum of $79 371.94 at the rate of 35% per annum calculated from the 3rd September 2013 to the date of payment in full (c) collection commission in terms of the Law Society of Zimbabwe By Laws 1982 and (d) costs of suit on the attorney and client scale. More
This is an application for absolution from the instance at the close of the plaintiff’s case which the plaintiff has opposed. The plaintiff is a Construction Company. It was engaged by the defendant to render certain construction services to defendant’s property at 110 Swan Drive Alexandra Park Harare namely making certain additions and alterations to an existing dwelling and erecting a boundary wall and modifying the gate as per detailed drawings. More
This is an application for bail pending trial. The trial involving the applicant and his co-accused persons commenced but was postponed owing to the insufficiency of the time allocated. The applicant made an application for admission to bail after the postponement of the trial. The application was dismissed on the basis that notwithstanding the fact that some of his co-accused had been admitted to bail the evidence led sufficiently linked the applicant to the offence in that he was identified by the witnesses who testified as one of the persons who assaulted the deceased person. In view of the seriousness... More
The matter was allocated to me on 24 January 2017 and I immediately set it down for hearing that very day. It started off with the first eight (8) cited
respondents who increased to ten (10) when I granted an order for intervention by the last 2
(two) respondents. More
