This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court (the court a quo) sitting at Harare, handed down on 28 July 2022, declaring that the appointment of the appellants as Trustees of the Centennial Trust was null and void. The court a quo also ordered that the appellants pay costs of suit on the legal practitioner and client scale. More
On 3 May 2021, the appellants noted an appeal against the whole judgment of the High Court (the court a quo) dated 14 April 2021, in which the court a quo granted a declaratory order and consequential relief in favour of the first respondent (Warurama). The court a quo declared the directive issued by the second respondent (the Minister) to the first appellant (the municipality) to reverse the purported appointment of Warurama as its financial director to be null and void and of no legal effect. It consequently set aside the directive and confirmed Warurama as the financial director in... More
This is an appeal against the whole judgment of the High Court (court a quo) sitting at Bulawayo, which was handed down on 3 November 2023. The court a quo found the appellants guilty of murder as defined in s 47 (1) (b) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] (Criminal Law Code) and sentenced each of them to 15 years imprisonment. More
This matter was placed before the full bench of this Court for confirmation of an order of constitutional invalidity pursuant to r 31 of the Constitutional Court Rules, 2016, (hereinafter “the Rules”) as read with s 175 (1) of the Constitution, against the judgment of the High Court, (hereinafter “court a quo”) in the case of Penelope Douglas Stone & Anor v Central Africa Building Society & Ors HC 4243/21. More
1. This is a chamber application for condonation of non-compliance with r 37 (2) and extension of time within which to file the appeal. The application is purportedly brought in terms of r 43 (1) of the Supreme Court Rules, 2018 (the Rules). The application is opposed. More
This is an opposed chamber application for leave to appeal purportedly in terms of r 60(2) of the Supreme Court Rules, 2018. After hearing the application, I gave an ex tempore judgment striking the matter off the roll for the reason that the application was fatally defective. The applicants have requested for written reasons for my decision. These are they. More
On 8 December 2022, the High Court, sitting at Harare, dismissed an urgent chamber application for an order of a stay of execution mounted by the applicants in response to an advert for the sale in execution of immovable properties at the instance of the first respondent herein. In determining the matter, the High Court held that the application for an order of a stay of execution of the properties was ill-fated due to the fact that the premise upon which the applicants sought reliance was not in their favour. More
