1. This is an appeal against both conviction and sentence. The appellants were convicted of extortion as defined in s 134 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23]. Each was sentenced to 26 months imprisonment of which 12 months were suspended for 5 years on the usual conditions of good behaviour. A further 4 months imprisonment was suspended on the condition that each appellant paid restitution. More
Applicant approached the court on an urgent basis seeking a declaration that first and second respondents and their assignees had committed an act of spoliation against him in respect of his occupation of subdivision 1 of Chifumbi North in Goromonzi District, measuring approximately 601.00 hectares. He also sought an order that the first and second respondents restore his peaceful and undisturbed occupation and use of the same farm. Applicant also sought an order for the eviction of the first and second respondents from the farm and costs of suit on a legal practitioner and client scale. More
This is an application for an order to compel the Respondent to deliver and or furnish the Applicant with Bills of Entry concerning certain computers imported and supplied to the Applicant by the Respondent as per the contract entered into by and between the parties hereto. The Applicant seeks an order that should Respondent fail to furnish Applicant with the Bills of Entry within 7 days of the Order being served on it, then the Respondent shall be liable to pay the penalty that will be levied against the Applicant by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe in relation thereto. More
This is an appeal against the whole judgment of the Labour Court (“the court a quo), sitting at Gweru, wherein the court a quo upheld an appeal by the respondent on the basis that she had been improperly charged and convicted by the appellant’s disciplinary authority. More
A brief background of this matter is that on 14 February 2017 applicant filed an urgent chamber application seeking provisionally an order interdicting respondents and any other persons acting through them from interfering with or otherwise disrupting Applicant from collecting his assets from 3rd respondent’s premises at any given time and also that 2nd respondent be interdicted from issuing threats of harm to applicant and preventing or disrupting applicant from carrying out his activities at 3rd respondent’s premises. More
Defendant entered appearance to defend and filed a plea. The basis of the plaintiff’s claim is that on the 29th of August 2018, plaintiff and defendant entered into a Marketing Licence Agreement herein after called the (“MLA”) wherein plaintiff was the Licensor and defendant the Licensee. Plaintiff who is the owner of property known as Fife Street Service Station allowed defendant to occupy and utilize the service station on terms agreed in the said agreement. The agreed duration of the agreement was one (1) year from the 1st June 2018 up to the 31st of May 2019. In terms of... More
Had it not been for the vagaries of climate change, this application may well never have been made. Before the court is a consolidation of two opposing claims between the same parties. One party (the applicant or “Townsend”), seeks an order for the registration of an arbitral award in terms of Article 35 of the Arbitration Act [ Chapter 7:15] (“the Act”). The other party (respondent “Sinohydro”) opposed Townsend`s claim. It also filed an application, under case number HC 1775/18, wherein it prayed for an order setting aside the same arbitral award in terms of section 34 of the same... More
