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.
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