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1. The application for condonation for late noting of an appeal and extension of time within which to note the appeal be and is hereby dismissed with costs for lack of merit. The matter was an application for condonation for late noting of an appeal and extension of time within which to file an appeal against a determination by Arbitrator B. Garudzo which determination was handed down on the 29th of February 2024. The application which was premised on Rule 22 of this court’s rules was opposed. More

CHIWESHE JA: This is an appeal against the whole judgment of the Labour Court (the court a quo) sitting at Harare dated 19 April 2022 in terms of which the court a quo granted an application for review of the disciplinary proceedings held by the appellant’s disciplinary committee against the respondent. Aggrieved by the decision of the court a quo, the appellant has no More

This is an urgent chamber application for stay of execution of the judgment in Case No. HCH 6502/19, pending determination of a court application filed under Case No. 3362/24. The latter court application seeks cancellation of Deed of Transfer No. 1467/2019. On the return date the applicants seek cancellation of the Deed of Transfer Number 1467/2019 in favour of the first respondent and revival of the Deed of Transfer Number 7269/2002 registered in favour of the late Tapuwa Edson More

On 30 June 2023, a judgment was granted in favour of the respondents in this matter by the Magistrates Court. This judgement dismissed the applicant’s entire claim for defamation under case 376/22. It is this judgement that the applicant wishes to appeal against. Following delivery of the judgement, applicant filed its appeal under CIV “A” 199/23 against the judgment in its entirety timeously. However, this appeal was struck off the roll due to the court finding it defective as it did not contain a request for the success of the appeal. Consequently, after the striking off of the appeal on... More

This is a ‘Combined Application’ for condonation of the late filing of an application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court and an application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court. This Court noted that both parties filed all relevant documents pertaining to the matter. It also occurred to me that this Court had recently rendered judgment in a similar application. It therefore dawned on me that the interests of justice would not be served by having the matter set down in terms of Rule 28 and that the Court is allowed to depart from the Rules where... More

Facts leading to this application as follows; - Applicant who was in the respondent’s employment as a Nutritionist Stock Feed was suspended from employment on 26 February 2024 on allegations of engaging in conduct inconsistent with conditions of her employment and habitual and substantial neglect of duty in contravention of the Model Code. More

The matter was placed before me as a chamber application for leave to appeal. The application was filed in terms of Section 92F (2) of the Labour Act [Chapter 28:01] as read with Rule 43. The Applicant intends to appeal against a judgement of this court handed down on 31st August, 2024 under case number LC/H/371/23. The judgement reference number is Labour Court/H/353/24. The parties appeared for the hearing on the 26th of November 2024. After listening to submissions by the parties on the preliminary points as well as the merits the court reserved judgement. On the 9th of December... More