Court Judgements
The plaintiff as represented by its Managing Director Ms Elizabeth Chidavaenzi issued summons out of this court on 9 June 2008 seeking the ejectment of the defendant from stand number 3182 of subdivision A of stand 159 Prospect in Harare (‘the property’). More
This is an application for a mandament van spolie. The applicant is a company which carries on business as a land developer. The first respondent is a company in the same business as the applicant. The second respondent controls the first respondent. His position in that company is not described in the papers. More
HC 5357/ 22 is intertwined with the present application. The parties are the same and the substance of the two cases rests on the same subject-matter. In casu, Drew and Fraser International (Pvt) Ltd and Euphrasia Mupedzisi (“the applicant) are a legal entity and a natural person respectively. The applicant applies for leave to appeal the decision which I made on 15 February 2023 under HC 5357/22 which is the decision of one Nicodimus Kuipa N.O. and the Estates Agents Council of Zimbabwe, the respondent a quo, as well as in this application which the applicant filed under HC 1398/23.... More
The material background facts to the matter are as follows; the Respondent was employed as a sales representative by Appellant. He was initially hired on a commission basis; a contract of employment was allegedly later signed between Respondent and one Jonathan Dube a farmer employee of the Appellant currently serving a jail term for defrauding the Appellant. More
This is an appeal against the decision of the Labour Court confirming the draft ruling of the respondent, a labour officer. The ruling was in favour of the appellant’s former employee, Ms Umarah Khan whose contract of employment was summarily terminated as from 15 April 2015 on allegations of certain acts of misconduct, including theft. More
In this matter the plaintiff, by way of a provisional sentence summons, claims payment of US$55 895.21 together with interest calculated at 5% per annum.
The claim is based on an account reconciliation, an alleged written acknowledgement of debt, a letter from Lunar Chickens and a letter from first defendant’s legal practitioners. The defendant raises the defence, inter alia, that it paid the debt to plaintiff’s creditor. For this reason, the first defendant argues that provisional sentence must be refused with costs on a punitive scale. More
This judgment covers two urgent applications. The parties are the same. I shall refer to the first application as “the application.” In opposing the application, the respondent raised a counter-application, (hereinafter referred to as “the counter-application.) For convenience, the citation of the parties shall remain the same in both the application and counter-application. I will deal with the application and counter-application separately in this judgment. Both applications are fiercely contested. More
