On 10 February 2021, applicant filed this urgent chamber application seeking relief set out in the draft provisional order as follows:
“TERMS OF FINAL ORDER SOUGHT:
That you show cause to the Honourable Court why a final order should not be made in the following terms-
1. Pending determination of the ordinary application for review which is to be filed within 5 days of the resumption of filing of normal court business.
2. That 3rd and 4th Respondent shall pay costs of suit on the higher scale of attorney and client.
INTERIM RELIEF GRANTED
1. Pending the return date, the... More
This is an application to compel the respondent to comply with the decision of an adjudicator in terms of Clause W1.4 of the engineering and construction contract between the parties. More
MAKONESE J: This is an application for the late noting of an appeal. The application is opposed by the state on the grounds that there are no reasonable prospects of success. Further and in any event, there are no recognizable grounds of appeal in the application and no reasonable explanation has been advanced for the failure to note the appeal timeously. More
the 25th of August 2021, I dismissed the appeals lodged by the appellants in this case against refusal of bail. My finding was that there was no misdirection on the part of the court a quo. The appellants have requested reasons for the dismissal of their appeal.
Background Facts
The appellants were arraigned before Mbare magistrates court facing a charge of unlawful entry into premises in aggravating circumstances as defined in s 131 (a) the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] as read with s 131 (2) (e ) of the said Act.
It was alleged that on... More
This is an urgent chamber application. The applicant applies to stay execution of certain property belonging to the Estate Late James Robert Dambaza Chikerema (“Estate Late James Chikerema”) attached by the second respondent at the instance of the first respondent. The applicant is the executrix dative of the Estate Late James Chikerema. The first respondent is the executrix dative of the Estate Late Charles Kufahakurotwe Chikerema (“Estate Late Charles Chikerema”). She is thoroughly ill-advised. She is flogging a horse that has been dead more than twenty years ago. This sort of thing happens if lawyers abdicate their responsibilities and begin... More
The background to this matter is that the appellant appeared before the magistrate at Harare on initial remand on 12 October, 2020. He was co-charged with an accomplice, one, Carrington Marasha. The two were facing allegations that they committed two counts of the offence of “Armed robbery” as defined in s 126 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform Act, [Chapter 9:23]. I should pause briefly to observe that there is no offence in the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act called “Armed Robbery”. More
This is an appeal against both conviction and sentence pursuant to the Magistrates Court convicting the appellant of 3 counts of criminal abuse of duty as a public officer as defined in s 174 (1) (a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] (“the Code”). He was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment on each count. Of the total 6 years imprisonment 2 years imprisonment was suspended for 5 years on the usual conditions of good behaviour. The eight motor vehicles which are the subject of the offence were fortified to the State. More
