The appellants appeal against the interlocutory judgment of the High Court (court a quo) handed down on 15 May 2024, with leave from the court a quo. The court a quo granted an application for an unexplained wealth order and an interim freezing order in favour of the first respondent and against the appellants. 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
1.This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court (the court a quo) wherein it granted with costs the respondent’s application for a declarator that his payment in local currency at the rate of one-to-one would discharge in full his judgment debt denominated in United States dollars. It also dismissed, with costs, the appellants’ counter application for a declaratory order that they were entitled to payment in United States dollars or its equivalent at the prevailing interbank rate. 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
This is an appeal against the decision of the Designated Authority (DA Mutezo) who upheld the guilty verdict and dismissal penalty meted out on appellant employee following allegations of gross incompetency or inefficiency in the performance of his duties in contravention of the respondent code of conduct. More
[1] This is an application for reinstatement of a matter. An order was made striking off the application.
The following are the reasons.
[2] At the commencement of the hearing an application for postponement of the matter was made on behalf of the applicant. This, it was argued, was necessitated by the absence due to illness of the officer who ordinarily deals with the matter. More
On 6 November 2024 we delivered a brief ex-tempore judgement upholding, for the most part, an appeal against the decision of the magistrate Court sitting at Masvingo (the court a quo). The court a quo had granted what was essentially an order for specific performance (other related matters) against the appellants; this followed the collapse of a contractual relationship between the parties. We now provide detailed reasons informing our decision at the behest of the respondent who has made a formal request for the same.
In a word, what was intended to be a straight forward agreement for the hire... More
