This matter concerns an application for contribution towards legal costs and maintenance pendente lite.
The parties are husband and wife having married under the Marriage Act (Chapter 5:11) now [Chapter 5:17].
Applicant instituted divorce proceedings which were stalled due to a number of challenges culminating in the divorce matter being removed from the roll. Three children were born of the marriage. Two, of the children are now majors and self-supporting while the youngest was born on 12 May 2005 and at the time of the execution of applicants founding affidavit was attending upper six.
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This is an appeal against the decision of the Health Service Commission where it upheld the appellant employee’s guilty verdict and dismissal penalty meted out by the disciplinary authority. More
The Applicant was employed by the Respondent for a period of about six and a half years in the position of Co-ordinator in the Water Resources and compliance department. In December 2020, the Applicant was suspended by the Respondent on allegations of insulting and threatening the Respondent’s Finance Manager. The Applicant was charged with contravening Section 4 (a) of the Labour (National Employment Code of Conduct) Regulations, 2006. More
On the 19th November 2021 this Court issued a judgment in terms of which it ordered respondent to reinstate applicant’s grade (after unlawful demotion) and pay damages arising from the demotion. The parties engaged each other but failed to settle the amount of damages payable. Then on 2nd September 2024 applicant filed the present application for quantification of the damages by this Court. Respondent opposed the application. More
OPPOSED APPLICATION
CHIRAWU-MUGOMBA J: The applicant seeks an interdict in terms of s8(1) of the Trade Marks Act ( Chapter 26:04), the ‘Act’. However, the correct section is 9A but this is neither here nor there. The applicant’s case as pleaded is very simple. She contends that since the 31st of May 2024, she is the registered proprietor in the Republic of Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique and Malawi of the trademark FESO under AP/M/2023/005745 in classes 1, 3 and 35 in respect of hair products. She attaches a copy of the certificate of registration which shows that the mark is registered... More
The plaintiff in this matter, Letwin Kadiyo, lays monetary claims against the defendant for US$32 500.00 and US$20 000.00 based on a tacit universal partnership that she says she had with Kudakwashe Naison, the defendant. The plaintiff met the defendant in 2013 at a time when each used to sell his or her own wares at a market called Gulf Market in Harare’s central business district. She sold shoes and he sold cell phones. They fell in love. They started cohabiting in 2014 with his parents. He continued with his business and she did the same with hers. Each at... More
The Plaintiff and the Defendant married each other customarily before they upgraded their union into a civil marriage. The parties married each other on 26 February 2019 in terms of the then Marriage Act [Chapter 5:11], now the Marriages Act [Chapter 5:15]. The marriage was blessed with one child, Lee Mufaro Matiza (born on 24 April 2024). On 6 March 2024, the Plaintiff sued out summons for divorce and ancillary relief. He stated in his declaration that the relationship between the parties has irretrievably broken down to such an extent that there are no prospects of restoration of a normal... More
