DUBE-BANDA J:
[1] This is an application for, inter alia, declaratory orders and consequential relief in the following terms:
i. The respondents’ decision to discharge the applicants from the police service be and is hereby held to be unlawful and wrongful.
ii. The respondents’ decisions to stand down the applicants from the police diploma program without giving the reasons and any form of justification is held to be unlawful and wrongful.
iii. The respondents are ordered to reinstate the applicants into the police service forthwith or at least not later than 14 days from the date of this order.
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This is an application for a declaratur. Initially, the applicant filed an urgent chamber application for an interdict against the respondents. The basis for the application was that the Applicant had received unlawful tax assessments from the 1st Respondent on the 6th of June 2024 which were unlawful because they are in foreign currency, despite the Applicant having never accrued or earned foreign currency as envisaged in s 4(A) of the Finance Act [ Chapter 23:04]. More
The only issue which stands for determination for now is whether the plaintiff is a legal persona and whether the plaintiff has locus standi in judicio. The plaintiff sued the defendant seeking recovery of US$60 500 being the sale proceeds of gold bullion. The defendant has denied liability and also challenged the plaintiff’s legal persona and locus standi. More
On 12 February 2025, this Court rendered judgment in Case Number LC/H/1303/24 in which the part of the operative judgment read:
“2. Applicants to meet Respondent’s costs, the one paying, the other to be absolved.
3.Applicants shall not institute any proceedings against the Respondent in this Court on the same cause of action without complying with paragraph 2 above or filing evidence of waiver from the Respondent for such non-compliance.”
Applicants have filed an application for leave to appeal to the More
The applicant seeks the setting aside of an order granted under case number HCHC 499/22 in default of its appearance at a case management conference on 18 May 2023. In the main dispute, the herein respondent had claimed an amount of US$45,000 as monies due and payable for a 40,000 litres consignment of diesel delivered, together with US$10,000 (presumably) as damages for breach of contract. More
[1] After hearing argument, in an ex-tempore judgment, I granted an order couched in the following terms:
1. The application be and is hereby granted.
2. The arbitral award issued by the Honourable Linnet Mvududu on 7 March 2024 be and is hereby registered as an order of this court. The award read as follows:
i. “I ordered that, upon termination, the claimant is entitled to unpaid wages and benefits.
ii. I ordered that the claimant be paid a total of USD$5 300.00 as unpaid wages for January 2023 and atotal of USD$14 437.00 as benefits being school fees and... More
[1] This is a special plea. The facts giving rise to this special plea may be briefly summarized as follows, the plaintiff issued summons against the defendant on 10 September 2024 seeking an order for payment of US23 943.85 being the replacement value of the damaged electric motor and the variable speed drive (VSD) control box; payment of US136 400.00 being the value of the loss of potential income which was anticipated from the expected wheat yield allegedly caused by the defendant’s electrical fault on the electricity distribution transformer which caused damage on plaintiff’s electric motor and the variable speed... More
