The applicant a 60 year old Insolvency practitioner appeared before the Magistrate at Harare on initial remand on 5 February 2021, facing a charge of fraud as defined in section 136 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter9:23] (herein after referred to as “the Code.”).Upon being placed on remand the appellant applied to be remanded out of custody. The respondent opposed the granting of bail on the grounds of risk of abscondment and interference with witnesses. The court a quo dismissed the abscondment contention and upheld the respondent’s contention that appellant was likely to interfere with witnesses because... More
This is a composite judgment in respect of three appeals which were heard at the same time. The appeals are against the whole judgment of the High Court handed down on 14 May 2020. They all rely on essentially the same grounds of appeal. The three appellants were the respondents in the court a quo but filed separate appeals under SC 183/20, SC 187/20 and SC 203/20. More
This is an urgent court application in which the applicants seek the following order;
“IT IS ORDERED THAT:
1. The 1st respondent is found to be in contempt of the judgment of the High Court of Zhou J under case number HC 7529/20 and CHITAPI J given under case number HC 27/21 consequently;
a) The 1st respondent is ordered to pay $20 000 000.00
b) The 1st respondent’s directors be committed to Chikurubi Maximum Prison for a period of 8 months of which all of it will be suspended on the grounds that immediately upon service of this order the... More
This is an appeal against bail refusal in a matter wherein the appellant is facing one count each of smuggling as defined in s 182 of the Customs & Excise Act
[Chapter 23:02] and criminal abuse of duty as a public officer as defined in s 174(1)(b) of the Criminal Law (Codification & Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23]. More
On 8 October 2020 we heard this appeal and dismissed it with costs. We have been asked for the written reasons and these are they.
This was an appeal against the dismissal of an application for rescission of a default judgment by the Magistrates Court. Two grounds of appeal were raised in the notice of appeal. However, at the hearing of the matter, Mr Dondo for the appellants made a concession that the first ground was not one of the reasons the court a quo dismissed the application for rescission of judgment. He consequently abandoned it. The second ground of... More
The application before me is of great moment. It relates to current events on challenges to judicial appointments to superior courts of Zimbabwe. It is common cause that there has been and there are currently on going litigations in other pending cases on the issue of the said appointments. This application is therefore of public interest. It is specifically concerned with the appointment of judges of the Supreme Court and Constitutional Court in Zimbabwe. More
This is an appeal against the decision of the appeals committee. The appellant was brought before the company disciplinary committee facing five charges. He was found guilty and a penalty of dismissal was imposed. He appealed to the appeals committee. The committee upheld the decision of the disciplinary committee. More
