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This application is for an extension of time within which to file a notice of opposition in case number HC 2301/19. The order sought is couched in the following terms: 1. The applicant’s late filing of the notice of opposition be and is hereby condoned. 2. The applicant is hereby required to file and serve its notice of opposition on the 2nd respondent’s court application for review within 48 hours of this order. 3. No order as to costs. The application is opposed. During hearing, Mr Sibanda, counsel for the applicant after trying to argue in support of this application,... More

This is a court application made in terms of s 85 (1) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe (No. 20) Act, 2013 (‘the Constitution’), which section provides for direct access to this Court in the pursuance of the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms as enshrined in Chapter 4 of the Constitution, and also, alternatively, direct access ostensibly motivated pursuant to s 167(5) of the Constitution. More

This is an application wherein the applicant seeks to set aside a sale in execution. The facts of this matter are that applicant’s immovable property namely stand number 131 Douglasdale Township 3 of subdivision 1 of Douglasdale situate in the District of Bulawayo wherein the property was sold by the Sheriff for a sum of $310 000,00 More

On the 15th February 2019 I granted an order on an urgent basis in the following terms:- “INTERIM RELIEF GRANTED Pending the final determination of this matter on the return date, the applicants be and are hereby granted the following relief:- 1. The respondent or any of its representatives, upon service of this order, be and is hereby directed to break the seals and allow the applicants to resume trading immediately upon the granting of this order. 2. Failing paragraph (1) above the applicant be and is hereby authorized to break the seals and resume trading.” More

The appellant was charged with fraud as defined in s 136 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23]. The State alleged that on diverse fifteen occasions at Mutare Bottling Company, 18 Riverside Road, Mutare, appellant and his two co-accused acting in connivance and in association with each other unlawfully made representations to the complainant company by crediting various amounts of money into Ukuzenzele Marketing Enterprises’ complainant credit account purporting that Ukuzenzele had paid such amounts to complainant servicing its debts, intending to deceive complainant More

This is an application for leave to appeal against a decision of the Labour Court, handed down on 27 October 2014 dismissing with costs, an appeal to that court against a decision of the respondent dismissing the appellant from employment. Leave to appeal was denied by the Labour Court on the premise that the intended appeal had no prospects of success. More

This is an appeal against the refusal of bail by the court a quo. The appellant appeared before the Magistrates Court facing one count of robbery as defined in s126 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, Chapter 9:23 and one count of attempted murder. More