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On 6th January 2025 Arbitrator P. Chiyangwa issued an award whereby she dismissed appellants’ claims of unlawful termination of employment by respondent. Appellants then More

TAKUVA J: The plaintiff in this matter instituted summons seeking the following relief; 1. An order that the Defendants pay the Plaintiff the sum of USD 200 000.00 (Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars), jointly and severally the one paying the other to be absolved, being defamation damages suffered by Plaintiff on account of defamatory and false report by the first Defendant to the second Defendant wherein first Defendant maliciously lied that Plaintiff had sexually assaulted her for over 18 years and the allegations were republished and or allowed to get to the unintended public and media by the first... More

After hearing submissions in this appeal, which commenced as an appeal against both conviction and sentence by the High Court (the court a quo) and later coalesced into an appeal against sentence only, this Court issued More

This is an appeal by all the appellants against a conviction by the court of a Provincial Magistrate (“the court a quo”) sitting at Bulawayo on 5 March 2025. The court a quo convicted the appellants of two (2) counts of the offence of “Assault” as defined in Section 89(1) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform), [Chapter 9:23 (the CODE). More

This is a divorce action matter. The parties married on 26 August 2017 in terms of the Civil Marriages Act Chapter 5:11 [now Chapter 5:17] and the marriage still subsists. The marriage was not blessed with children. More

This is an opposed composite chamber application More

This is an application that purports to seek a declaratory order in terms of s 14 of the High Court Act [Chapter 7:06], together with what is termed “consequential relief.” The Applicants pray primarily for the setting aside of certain permits issued by the third Respondent (City of Harare) in favour of the 1st Respondent, Vonspring Investments (Pvt) Ltd. More