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Default Judgment re: Default Judgment and Snatching at a Judgment iro Claim for Damages

HB96-09 : TISO NKALA vs WINNIE SEBATA and BEN DUBE
Ruled By: NDOU J

This is an application for default judgment. The plaintiff issued out summons against the defendants jointly and severally claiming, inter alia, a total of US$7,000= damages for defamation. The quantum of damages is the subject of this judgment. The other prayers are in order. The defendants were properly served with the summons on 22 July 2009, and chose not ...
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HB96-09 : TISO NKALA vs WINNIE SEBATA and BEN DUBE
Ruled By: NDOU J

Accordingly, it is ordered that default judgment be and is hereby granted to the plaintiff in the following terms - 1. The defendants, jointly and severally, the one paying the other to be absolved, shall pay the plaintiff the sum of US$2,000= (two thousand United States Dollars), being damages for defamation. 2. The defendants, jointly and severally, ...
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HH181-10 : CEDRIC STEELE vs EDWARD HAMADZIRIPI CHIPOPE and PATRICK MADZIMA
Ruled By: MAKONI J

The defendants did not defend the matter.
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HH137-11 : MARTHA MUHWATI vs YEUKAI PURITY NYAMA
Ruled By: MAWADZE J

This is an application for default judgment. The claim is for adultery damages in the sum of US$20,000=….,. The defendant was served with the summons at her place of residence through her sister in law on 23 March 2010. No appearance to defend was filed. The plaintiff applied for a default judgment after the ...
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HB01-10 : CHIPO JHAMBA vs ALETA V. MUGWISI
Ruled By: CHEDA J

This is an application for a default judgment for adultery damages.On the 26th of November 2008, the plaintiff sued for adultery damages in the sum of US$50,000. I granted the application for default but amended the claim to US$500 with an undertaking to give my reasons for the reduction of ...
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HH152-11 : CHENESAI RATEIWA vs TSITSI SHAME VENGE
Ruled By: BERE J

The defendant did not respond to the summons and this prompted the plaintiff to apply for default judgment.
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HH134-15 : SHEM CHIVHUMBA MLAMBO vs ISAAC MUTAMBI PHIRI CHIKATA
Ruled By: ZHOU J

According to the plaintiff's declaration, the claim was founded upon an agreement concluded in March 2000 in terms of which the defendant sold to the plaintiff “five acres of land which was a portion of Gwelo Smallholding 1A”. The plaintiff makes the following further averments in his declaration: “4. In terms of the agreement, the sale was ...
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HH399-18 : AMON MAPIYE vs INNOCENT MUDYIWA
Ruled By: NDEWERE J

The background of the case is that the plaintiff, Amon Mapiye, got into a customary union with his wife, Nomsa Faith Mapiye (nee Mwazha), in 1999. Their union was initially blessed with two children, in May 2001 and 15 October 2005.On 24 April 2007, the plaintiff and his wife solemnised ...
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HH40-13 : TREVOR SIMBANEGAVI vs OFFICER JACHI
Ruled By: MAKONI J

On 8 December 2010, at around 1700 hours, and in Avonlea Drive, the plaintiff was approached by the defendant who was in the company of other officers of the Criminal Investigation Department. The defendant ordered the plaintiff to disembark from the motor vehicle where he was sitting. He ordered the ...
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HH27-07 : EDWARD MARUME and ELLEN CHAMUNORWA vs TODD MURANGANWA
Ruled By: MAKARAU JP

This matter came before me in Motion Court as an application for default judgment in terms of Rule 58 of the High Court Rules, 1971.The facts of the matter, as set out in the plaintiffs' affidavit of evidence, are as follows:The plaintiffs are husband and wife. On 12 April 2005, ...
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HH675-21 : RITA MBATHA vs FARAI ZIZHOU and CONFEDERATION OF ZIMBABWE INDUSTRIES
Ruled By: MAFUSIRE J

IntroductionThe plaintiff claims a default judgment for sexual harassment. She is unrepresented.The matter appeared on the unopposed motion roll on 20 October 2021. It was one of several such appearances. In the past, the matter would be removed from the roll for one reason or other. The matter has had ...
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HH668-14 : ELIZABETH TANYANYIWA vs LINDIWE HUCHU
Ruled By: CHIGUMBA J

Adultery is defined as "sexual intercourse between two persons of whom one or both are married but who are not married to each other":Sapsford v Sapsford and Furtado (1954) 2 All ER 373; P.M. BROMLEY and N.V. LOWE, Family Law, London, 7th ed. 1987…,; see also S.A. ADESANYA, Laws of ...
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HMT53-19 : SHINGIRAI VAMBE vs RUSAPE TOWN COUNCIL
Ruled By: MWAYERA J and MUZENDA J

The appellant instituted summons at Rusape Magistrate Court claiming $5,000 from the respondent being general damages arising from the alleged unlawful destruction of the appellant's temporary structure constructed at No.7688 without a valid court order as well as for harassing the appellant's wife at the latter's work place without the ...
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