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The applicant in this matter was charged with and convicted of assault in July 1999. He was fined $400 or in default of payment ordered to serve two months in prison. He was further sentenced to imprisonment for one month, all of which was suspended for five years on certain conditions. He successfully appealed against both conviction and sentence More
The applicant is standing trial in the Magistrates Court on charges he has not specified in his founding affidavit The nature of the charges that the applicant is facing is however immaterial to the determination of this application. More
The applicant appeared before a magistrate charged with contravening s 3 (2) of the Gazetted Land (Consequential Provisions) Act [Cap 20:28]. He was convicted and sentenced on 6 July 2010 and issued with an order evicting him from the land to which the offence related. More
This is an urgent chamber application in which the applicant seeks the following relief:
“TERMS OF FINAL ORDER SOUGHT.
The respondents should show cause why a final order should not be made in the following terms: -
1. Respondents be and are hereby interdicted from transferring Stand No 140 Christon Bank Township of Maryvale of Mgutu of Great B, before determination and finalization of case no HC 1753/09.
2. First and second respondents should pay costs of suit on a higher scale of attorney and client scale jointly and severally one paying for the other to be absolved. More
This matter came before me via the chamber book on the basis of perceived urgency. The applicants are desirous of a provisional order whose interim relief is couched in this vein:
“Pending determination of this matter, the first and second applicant is (sic) granted the following relief:-
1.
That the motor vehicles impounded by the respondent from the second applicant being Isuzu KB 250 double cab, Registration ABG 3091 and Isuzu KB 250 ABI 6481 double cab, be and are hereby ordered to be released to second applicant forthwith or upon service of this Order. More
In this urgent chamber application the applicants seek a provisional order in the following terms:-
“TERMS OF THE FINAL ORDER SOUGHT
1. That the 1st to 7th respondents, their families, workers and/or agents are hereby ordered to restore to the first to third applicant companies and its workers to unhindered access, occupation and possession of the remainder of Weltevrede Estate also called Bhachi Farm (hereinafter called the farm) and specifically:- More
On 6 July 2009, the applicant issued summons against the respondent, claiming provisional sentence in the sum of US$ 8 920-00 together with interest thereon at the rate of 5% p. a. reckoned from the date of the issuance of summons to date of payment in full.
In the summons, the plaintiff alleged that the claim was based on a letter written by the defendant’s legal practitioners on 11 June 2009 in which the debt was allegedly acknowledged. A copy of the letter was attached to the summons. More
