Court Judgements
Chinhoyi High Court Judgements
What confronts this court in this civil trial is a box ring match. There is no witness testimony, nor is there any other real, direct and independent evidence to support either side’s averments. It is the plaintiff’s word against that of his opponent. The mammoth task is the need to place before the court enough circumstantial evidence upon which the court can plough through to arrive at a reasonable inference exclusively pointing one direction as opposed to the other, intriguingly bearing in mind the parameters of the burden of proof in Civil matters. More
This is an appeal against the decision of a Magistrate Court sitting as a Community Court of appeal ordering her eviction. More
This is an urgent chamber application to interdict the respondents from carrying out executive functions of the first applicant including preparations for the August 2022Kadoma agricultural show.
The first applicant is a legal persona with capacity to sue and be sued.
The second to the ninth applicants purport to be the lawful appointed authority to administer the affairs of the first applicant.
The respondents are individuals with capacity to be sued. They too claim to be the lawful committee to run the first applicant’s affairs. At the heart of this dispute, is the control of the first applicant. More
: This is an application for bail pending appeal. The applicant was convicted in November 2017 on one count of stock theft in contravention of s114 2(a)(i) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform Act) Chapter 9:23. The court did not find any special circumstances, it then imposed the mandatory sentence of 9 years imprisonment.
The applicant filed an appeal against conviction in 2022 after being granted leave by this court to do so under HC7/22. More
: In this automatic review matter the accused was charged and convicted of stock theft as defined in of s114 of the Criminal Law Reform and Codification Act, Chapter 9:23 after a contested trial. He was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment of which 2 years were suspended for 5 years on related conditions. One year imprisonment was suspended on condition of restitution of the sum of US$3859.00. He is serving an effective 11 year jail term. More
