This is an appeal against the whole judgment of the High Court of Zimbabwe (court a quo) handed down on 5 October 2022, dismissing the appellants’ application for the setting aside of an arbitral award made in terms of Article 34 of the First Schedule to the Arbitration Act [Chapter 7:15] (‘the Arbitration Act’). More
1. This is a criminal appeal against the whole judgment of the High Court (the court a quo) which reversed the appellants’ acquittal by the Regional Magistrate, Harare on one count of forgery as defined in s 137 of the Criminal law (Codification) and Reform Act [Chapter 9:23] (the Code) and two counts of fraud as defined in s 136 of the Code. The court a quo, in the process of appeal, overturned the verdicts of acquittal and substituted them with verdicts of guilty on all the 3 counts for all the 4 appellants. Thereafter it remitted the matter to... More
This is an opposed application for condonation and reinstatement of an appeal in terms of r 43 as read with r 70m of the Supreme Court Rules 2018. More
[1] This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court sitting at Bulawayo (“court a quo”) wherein the court sentenced the first appellant to three years imprisonment for each of the 17 counts he had been convicted of, with some counts being ordered to run concurrently, resulting in a total effective sentence of 45 years imprisonment. Similarly, the second appellant was sentenced to three years imprisonment for each of the 18 counts he had been convicted of, with certain counts running concurrently, leading to a total effective sentence of 48 years imprisonment.
BACKGROUND FACTS
The appellants were charged... More
MATHONSI JA: This is an automatic appeal in terms of s 44 (2) (c) of the High Court Act [Chapter 7:06], against the conviction of the first and the second appellants by the High Court (the court a quo) of the crime of murder on 29 June 2023 and their subsequent sentence to death on 2 July 2023. If the appeal had not been automatic, one would have been left wondering what possessed those involved in the appeal to embark on it owing, not only to the overwhelming evidence staked against the appellants, but also to the brutal and senseless... More
This matter involves two appeals; a main appeal noted by the appellants and a cross-appeal noted by the second respondent. Each appeal is against a part of the judgment of the High Court (“the court a quo”) handed down on 12 June 2024 as judgment number HH 240/24 in case number HC 6656/23 in an interpleader application filed by the first respondent in terms of r 63 (2) as read with r 63 (5) and (7) of the High Court Rules, 2021. The part appealed against in the main appeal are paras 1 to 5 of the judgment whilst the... More
