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Family law [2025] ZWHHC 18

C v M (18 of 2025)

C v M (18 of 2025) [2025] ZWHHC 18 (15 January 2025)

The High Court of Zimbabwe awarded adultery damages after finding the defendant knowingly carried on an affair with the plaintiff’s husband and caused loss of consortium and contumelia.

  • Adultery damages
  • Loss of consortium
  • Contumelia
  • Adultery-damages
  • Loss-of-consortium
  • Family-law
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Constitutional law [2025] ZWHHC 7

NYIKA v MINISTER OF HOME AFFAIRS and OTHERS / TOBAIWA v MINISTER OF HOME AFFAIRS and OTHERS (7 of 2025)

NYIKA v MINISTER OF HOME AFFAIRS and OTHERS / TOBAIWA v MINISTER OF HOME AFFAIRS and OTHERS (7 of 2025) [2025] ZWHHC 7 (7 January 2025)

The High Court referred the constitutionality of section 70 of the Police Act to the Constitutional Court and stayed two linked damages claims against police officers.

  • Prescription of actions
  • Access to justice
  • Equality before the law
  • Damages against police
  • Constitutional-law
  • Civil-procedure
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Delict [2025] ZWHHC 1

Mukandi v Nyamweda and Others (1 of 2025)

Mukandi v Nyamweda and Others (1 of 2025) [2025] ZWHHC 1 (2 January 2025)

The High Court partly granted absolution from the instance: the first defendant remained liable except for permanent disability, while the second and third defendants were absolved.

  • Negligence
  • Damages
  • Absolution from the instance
  • Ownership liability
  • Vicarious liability
  • Pleadings
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Banking law [2023] ZWHHC 553

AL Shams Global BVI Limited v Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (571 of 2023)

AL Shams Global BVI Limited v Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (571 of 2023) [2023] ZWHHC 553 (20 October 2023)

The High Court dismissed a claim against the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe for losses linked to Interfin Bank’s collapse, finding no duty of care and no pleaded bad faith.

  • Central bank liability
  • Negligence
  • Statutory duty
  • Immunity of regulators
  • Pure economic loss
  • Banking-law
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Delict [2023] ZWMSVHC 18

Marowa v Mabaya & Sons Transport & General Contractors CC and Another (2 of 2023)

Marowa v Mabaya & Sons Transport & General Contractors CC and Another (2 of 2023) [2023] ZWMSVHC 18 (15 February 2023)

The High Court upheld a special plea that the plaintiff had not complied with the NSSA scheme, finding he failed to prove foreign employment or exemption.

  • Vicarious liability
  • Workers compensation
  • Third party insurance
  • Currency of claim
  • Workers-compensation
  • Special-plea
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Delict [2023] ZWMSVHC 19

Shamhu v Taderera (1 of 2023)

Shamhu v Taderera (1 of 2023) [2023] ZWMSVHC 19 (25 January 2023)

The High Court of Zimbabwe held that an adulterous relationship continued after 2019 and awarded the plaintiff US$13,000 in adultery damages, rejecting a compromise defence.

  • Adultery
  • Damages
  • Loss of consortium
  • Contumelia
  • Compromise
  • Constitutionality of adultery delict
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Delict [2022] ZWHHC 844

Brightland Farming (Private) Limited v Redan Petroleum (Pvt) Ltd and Another (844 of 2022)

Brightland Farming (Private) Limited v Redan Petroleum (Pvt) Ltd and Another (844 of 2022) [2022] ZWHHC 844 (11 November 2022)

The High Court dismissed a claim for damages over removed bakery equipment, finding the landlord Crestlane—not the cited defendants—caused the removal.

  • Vicarious liability
  • Wrongful removal of property
  • Damages
  • Non-joinder of necessary parties
  • Vicarious-liability
  • Wrongful-removal
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Civil procedure [2022] ZWBHC 117

Muhlwa v Alpha Media Holdings (Pvt) Ltd t/a Southern Eye and 2 Others (117 of 2022)

Muhlwa v Alpha Media Holdings (Pvt) Ltd t/a Southern Eye and 2 Others (117 of 2022) [2022] ZWBHC 117 (5 May 2022)

The High Court partially rescinded a default judgment after finding the applicant’s non-opposition resulted from a genuine mistake and that a bona fide defence existed on the merits.

  • Rescission of judgment
  • Default judgment
  • Currency conversion
  • Interpretation of statutes
  • Rescission-of-judgment
  • Default-judgment
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Civil procedure [2022] ZWHHC 262

Chimimba v First Capital Bank Limited (262 of 2022)

Chimimba v First Capital Bank Limited (262 of 2022) [2022] ZWHHC 262 (20 April 2022)

The High Court upheld an exception, finding no legal causal link between the bank’s conduct and the plaintiff’s alleged arrest and reputational harm.

  • Exception
  • Cause of action
  • Misjoinder
  • Actio injuriarum
  • Legal causation
  • Cause-of-action
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Civil procedure [2022] ZWSC 42

Ingalulu Investments (private) Limited and Another v NRZ and Another (42 of 2022)

Ingalulu Investments (private) Limited and Another v NRZ and Another (42 of 2022) [2022] ZWSC 42 (24 March 2022)

The Supreme Court held that delictual damages were not subject to the RTGS-to-US dollar one-to-one parity rate under the Reserve Bank Act, so the award was payable at the interbank rate.

  • Conversion of foreign currency judgments
  • Delictual damages
  • Statutory interpretation
  • Delictual-damages
  • Currency-conversion
  • Statutory-interpretation
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