Judgment No. SC 27/18 Civil Appeal No. SC 173/17 REPORTABLE (1) (21) GETRUDE PAZVICHAINDA STEMBILE MUTASA (2) DIDYMUS NOEL EDWIN MUTASA v (1) THE REGISTRAR OF SUPREME COURT (2) NYAKUTOMBWA MUGABE LEGAL COUNSEL (3) SHERIFF OF ZIMBABWE SUPREME COURT OF ZIMBABWE GUVAVA JA HARARE: FEBRUARY 14, 2018 & MAY 14, 2018 D. T. Mwonzora, for the applicants F. Mahere, for the second respondent CHAMBER APPLICATION GUVAVA JA: This is a chamber application made in terms of r 12 of the Supreme Court Rules ,1964. The brief background to this application may be summarised as follows: The applicants are husband and wife. They approached the court a quo, by way of urgent chamber application, seeking a stay of execution and return of goods which had been removed pursuant to a writ of execution following a default judgment which was granted in favour of the second respondent. The default judgment, related to a claim by the second respondent, who was the legal practitioner for the second applicant, claiming unpaid legal fees for services rendered to the second applicant and his political colleagues. 1

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