This urgent chamber application involves a wrangle between two couples. Central to the dispute is a piece of land sold to the applicants by the respondents. I set the matter down for hearing on 16 March 2020. It seemed a settlement was well-nigh possible. I postponed the matter to 18 March 2021 to accord the parties more time to discuss. On 18 March 2021, the parties came back with gloves off. They were all set for legal combat. More
This is a court application for condonation of late filing of a court application for review in terms of Order 40 r 359 (8) of the High Court Rules. This judgment is in respect to a preliminary point raised by the 2nd to 4th respondents (hereinafter referred to as the respondents). More
Applicant has instituted an urgent chamber application against first, second and third respondent claiming a provisional order in the following terms:-
Terms of final order sought
That you show cause to this Honourable Court why a final order should not be granted that
(1) The applicant be declared the rightful owner of the mine called Virginia 2 registration number 4588 in Kadoma and Virginia 7 registration number 4589 in Kadoma.
(2) That the first respondent pay costs on a legal practitioner and client scale.
Interim order granted.
(1) The Notice issued in the Government gazette published on the 8th January... More
On 3 February 2021, the applicants filed an urgent chamber application seeking to interdict the enforcement of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) (Standard Scale of Fines) Notice 2021 (“SI 25/21”), which was published in an extraordinary Government Gazette on 25 January 2021. Perhaps, it is important to begin by giving the context in which this application was filed and came before me. It is common cause that, on 28 March 2020, the Public Health (Covid-19 Prevention, Containment and Treatment and Treatment) Regulations 2020, Statutory Instrument 77 of 2020 (“SI 77/20”) came in force. This piece of legislation contained provisions... More
This is an application for condonation of late filing of an appeal. The application arises out of a determination handed down by the respondent’s Disciplinary Authority on 6 August 2019 More
KABASA J: This is an appeal against the refusal by the court a quo to grant the appellant bail on the basis of changed circumstances.
The background to the matter is this: The appellant was arrested in October 2020 on allegations of theft as defined in section 113 (2) (a) and fraud as defined in section 136 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, Chapter 9:23. More
Applicant applied to this court for the condonation of his delay in filing a review application. Respondent opposed the application for condonation I shall deal with the matter under sub – titles “Delay” and “Prospects.” More
