The Supreme Court (Ziyambi JA, Gowora JA, Guvava JA) dismissed the appeal with costs. The Court found no misdirection by the High Court and held that the lower…
Gowora J (as she then was) granted the appellants' application to register the quantified arbitral award, resulting in a judgment debt of US$788,296.21 in…
The Supreme Court allowed the appeal on 13 February 2012. The Deputy Chief Justice found that the High Court had misdirected itself by failing to apply the…
The Supreme Court found that the arbitrator acted contrary to public policy by issuing the final award in defiance of Chigumba J's binding order, which he…
Mwenje appealed the Labour Court's dismissal of his application. The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal with costs on 21 July 2005, agreeing with the Senior…
The Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal with costs including the costs of two counsel. The court held that the appellant failed to prove that the…
The High Court granted the application, ordering the 3rd respondent (President) to gazette election dates within fourteen days for the three vacant…
Moyo J dismissed the urgent chamber application with costs. The court held that the applicant failed to establish a prima facie right as he was never granted…
The High Court declined to exercise its jurisdiction on the grounds that the applicant had not exhausted domestic remedies provided under the Land Commission…
The High Court considered the applicant's application for registration and enforcement of the arbitration award in terms of Article 35 of the Model Law. The…
MAFUSIRE J heard the application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court on 20 July 2021 and dismissed it on 13 September 2021. The court found the proposed…
The High Court granted the applicant's rei vindicatio application filed on 9 July 2020, ordering the respondent to deliver two motor vehicles to the applicant…
The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal against both conviction and sentence in its entirety. The Court found that the audit evidence established blatant…
Takuva J dismissed the respondents' points in limine and opposition on the merits. The court found that the applicant had established clear ownership rights…
The SCA (Mathopo JA, with Shongwe, Majiedt, Van der Merwe JJA and Mbatha AJA concurring) found that the LCC had erred by granting orders not pleaded or sought…
Chitapi J granted a rei-vindicatio order in favor of the respondent (Liberation Mining) on 17 January 2020. The court found that the purported agreement of…
The High Court (Chatukuta and Mangota JJ) allowed the appeal in part. The court found that the trial magistrate had seriously misdirected itself by failing to…
The High Court (Foroma J) dismissed the appeal against the refusal of bail. While the court found that the Magistrates Court had made an irregularity in its…
Mtshiya J dismissed the applicant's second urgent application seeking an interdict pending the appeal. The court held it had no power to review the earlier…
The High Court granted the defendants' application for absolution from the instance with costs against the plaintiff. Moyo J found that the plaintiff failed to…
The High Court heard the rei vindicatio application brought by the applicant seeking to evict the respondent from church property. After appointing a curator…
The Supreme Court (Guvava JA, Uchena JA & Ziyambi AJA) heard the appeal by Afrasia Bank Limited against the High Court's order. The Court dismissed the appeal…
The Supreme Court allowed the appeal with costs, holding that compliance with Rule 5(2) of the Companies (Winding Up) Rules requiring prior service of the…
The High Court reviewed the Commission's decision on urgent application filed 17 June 2004. Uchena J found that the Commission committed an irregularity in…
The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal with costs. It found that the Board properly responded within the statutory 14-day period, that 'respond' does not mean…
The High Court dismissed the appellants' application for a refund of $739,688.18, which they claimed was an overpayment made under a bank guarantee. The court…
Both parties brought review applications under Rule 48(2) challenging the Taxing Officer's decisions. McNally JA heard both reviews together. He upheld certain…
Hungwe J granted Bright Ziyanga's urgent application seeking an order staying Tsanga J's order and rescission of the judgment on the basis that although the…
The High Court (Chikowero and Kwenda JJ) dismissed the appeal against conviction. The appellant had abandoned the appeal against sentence at the hearing. The…
The High Court (Makarau JP) dismissed the consolidated bail applications filed by the applicants after the Constitutional Court ruling. Despite the systemic…
The applicants filed a fresh application for condonation of non-compliance with Rule 45(1) and for extension of time to note an appeal. The Supreme Court…
The applicant sought review of the Magistrate's decision on grounds that he was denied the opportunity to call witnesses and that the Magistrate erred in…
The High Court (Chiweshe JP) dismissed the first defendant's exception in its entirety. The court found that the plaintiff's summons and declaration…
The Supreme Court partially allowed the appeal. It upheld paragraphs 1 and 2 of the High Court's order finding the first appellant's nomination…
The High Court heard the bail application. The State consented to bail for the second applicant, Faith Ngwenyenyi, who was granted bail. The first applicant,…
The Constitutional Court allowed the appeal. It held that the land in question was urban land (having been proclaimed as such by S.I. 212 of 1999), that…
The Supreme Court allowed the appeal with costs and set aside the High Court's judgment. The Court held that the High Court erred in finding that the appellant…
The Supreme Court of Appeal upheld the appeal with costs, finding that the high incidence of badly aimed golf balls entering the appellants' property was…
The City of Harare successfully challenged the arbitral award before Muremba J on 10 August 2018. The court set aside the arbitral award granted by Mtshiya J.
The Supreme Court allowed the appeal with costs. It held that the High Court erred in: (1) accepting an improperly pleaded special plea; (2) finding that locus…
On 26 November 2025, Mafusire J granted an order for civil imprisonment against the defendant for 90 days, suspended on condition that he pay the plaintiff the…
On 27 June 2013, CHEDA J dismissed the applicant's application for condonation of late filing of a rescission application with costs. The court found that the…
The applicant sought an urgent stay of the criminal proceedings pending the determination of the review application. Mathonsi J granted the provisional order,…
The Supreme Court struck off the appeal on 23 May 2022, finding that the High Court's order was an interlocutory judgment that required leave to appeal under…
Mambara J granted the application in part, setting aside paragraphs 24(2) and 24(3) of the arbitral award under Article 34(2)(iii) of the Arbitration Act on…
The High Court dismissed the appeal against conviction. The court found that the first and third grounds of appeal were invalid as they were general and vague,…
The High Court (per Charewa J) heard the first defendant's special plea objecting to the declaration as a nullity for being filed out of time. The court found…
The applicants sought review of the regional magistrate's interlocutory decision to dismiss their discharge application. Chitapi J dismissed the review…
Bhunu J refused to grant an interim interdict pending determination of the main urgent application for interim relief. The court held it was unnecessary to…
Patel J confirmed the provisional spoliation order on 21 December 2009. The order was declaratory in nature and pronounced that applicant had no right to…
The Supreme Court upheld the Labour Court's finding that an employment relationship existed between the parties but set aside the damages award. The court…
On appeal, the High Court (Mawadze DJP and Wamambo J) allowed the appeal, set aside the Magistrates' Court judgment, and upheld the special plea. The Court…
The Supreme Court granted leave to appeal against the High Court's judgment. The court found that the applicant had good prospects of success on appeal because…
The applicants sought registration of the arbitral award under s 98(14) of the Labour Act. The respondent raised a preliminary point that the application was a…
Following remittal from the Supreme Court, the High Court determined that reinstatement was inappropriate due to breakdown of the working relationship and…
Manyangadze J upheld the first respondent's preliminary point that the applicants had failed to join persons who would be affected by the eviction and…
The High Court (Kamocha and Makonese JJ) dismissed the appeal against both conviction and sentence. The court held that the Appellant fell within the…
The High Court (Charewa J) dismissed the applicant's application for condonation of late filing of a review application with costs. The court found that the…
The applicant brought a declaratory application under section 14 of the High Court Act seeking to be declared the lawful holder of the offer letter after the…
On 17 August 2017, the plaintiff issued fresh summons claiming $30,962.52 (later amended to $25,400) as interest on the original award. The defendant excepted…