Court Judgements
Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe Judgements
The applicant in this matter is a self-actress seeking the indulgence of this Court to begranted condonation for non-compliance with the Rules. On 29 March 2023, her applicationfor direct access to this Court under Case No. CCZ 55/22 was struck off the roll due to herfailure to effect proper service on the first respondent. The application was one of many suitsbetween the applicant and the firstrespondent who have beendeadlocked inprotractedlitigationsince2016when thelatter sought toevict theformer from hisproperty.
The dispute between the parties appeared to have reached finality when the SupremeCourt, in Case No.SC 443/21, dismissed the applicant’s appeal in which she... More
On 8 December 2022, the High Court, sitting at Harare, dismissed an urgent chamber application for an order of a stay of execution mounted by the applicants in response to an advert for the sale in execution of immovable properties at the instance of the first respondent herein. In determining the matter, the High Court held that the application for an order of a stay of execution of the properties was ill-fated due to the fact that the premise upon which the applicants sought reliance was not in their favour. More
After hearing submissions by counsel in the two applications, the Court made the following order:
“After considering the papers filed in this matter and hearing submissions by counsel, the Court unanimously concludes that both applications have no merit and are hereby dismissed with costs on the ordinary scale.” More
The two matters herein are applications for leave to appeal, lodged in terms of r 32(2) of the Constitutional Court Rules 2016, against two separate judgments of the Supreme Court. The first judgment (No. SC 131/21) was handed down in Case No. SC 153/20, while the second judgment (No. SC 132/21) was delivered in Case No. SC 125/21. More
These are two separate applications which are substantially similar, in that they raise the same issues and seek the same kind of relief against the same respondent church. More
