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1. This is a chamber application for reinstatement of the applicant’s appeal in terms of r 70 (2) of the Supreme Court Rules 2018 (the Rules). The application is pursuant to the Registrar’s order deeming the appeal abandoned and dismissed in terms of r 53 (1) of the Rules. The appeal was deemed abandoned and dismissed for want of filing heads of argument on time. The application is opposed. More

The debate over what came first, the chicken or the egg has never been resolved to finality. In casu, however, the question of what is in a chicken has a one- word answer to the plaintiff and the defendant - ‘everything’. Even more intriguing is the use of the word ‘luv’ by both of them in their registered trademarks. More

On 9 July 2021 the respondent was found guilty of unprofessional, dishonourable and unworthy conduct. He had been charged with contravening s 23 (1) (c) of the Legal Practitioners Act [Chapter 27:07] (the Act) as read with sections 70 E and 70F of the Law Society of Zimbabwe Regulations, 1982 (SI 314 of 1982) and s 23 (2) (b) of the Act. It had been alleged that he failed: (a) to provide his client with a comprehensive debt collection report; (b) to account for the deposit the client had paid to his firm. (c) to renounce agency at the request... More

: The respondent was registered as a legal practitioner in March 1995. He practiced for two years before joining Tedco Industries from January 1997 to December 2003. Thereafter he, in January 2004, returned to private practice and has been practicing law since then. He practices under the style Madanhi, Mugadza & Company Attorneys At Law.The applicant filed the present application seeking an order for the deregistration of the respondent as a Legal Practitioner, Notary Public and Conveyancer. It moved us to direct the respondent to pay the applicant’s expenses incurred in connection with these proceedings. The applicant alleges that the... More

The Deposit Protection Corporation filed the present application in its capacity as the liquidator of Afrasia Bank Zimbabwe Limited. The liquidator sought an order for the impeachment of first respondent’s share repurchase scheme codified under a Binding Memorandum of Agreement executed on 5 September 2013. This agreement was signed by Kingdom Bank Limited, Afrasia Kingdom Zimbabwe Limited, Crustmoon Investments (Pvt) Ltd, Afrasia Kingdom Holdings Limited, Nigel Muranganwa Kudzai Chanakira, Afrasia Holdings Limited and Charles Wawn. More

The first respondent is the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, which is an independent commission tasked with running electoral processes in Zimbabwe. The second is the first respondent’s Chief Elections Officer who is in charge of the first respondent’s operations. The appellants filed a joint notice of appeal on 25 June 2023 in terms of s 46 (19)(b) of the Electoral Act [Chapter 2:13] as read with rules 10 and 11 of the Electoral (Applications, Appeals and Petitions) Rules, 1995, Statutory Instrument 74 A, 1995. The appeal is opposed by the respondents in terms of r 12 of the Electoral (Applications, Appeals... More

This is an application for specific performance in terms of Order 32 of the Old High Court Rules 1971. Applicants are claiming conveyancing mandates over certain properties belonging to 2nd respondent. In the alternative applicants claim 80% fees premised off a conveyancing tariff SI 24/2013. More