High Court of Zambia - 2004

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6 judgments
November 2004
Whether employees' redundancy and wrongful-termination claims against a company in receivership disclose triable issues or are plainly untenable.
  • Companies law — Receivership and preferential payments; Civil procedure — Strike out under Order 18, Rule 19; Reasonable cause of action; Triable issues; Redundancy and wrongful-termination claims against company/receivers.
25 November 2004
Conditional correspondence did not revive a time‑barred claim; prior leave required to sue after appointment of a provisional liquidator.
  • Limitation of actions — acknowledgement of debt — conditional correspondence does not revive time‑barred claims; Companies Act s.281 — provisional liquidator — prior leave required to commence or proceed with actions against the company; Procedural duty — plaintiff must obtain leave before suing liquidated company.
4 November 2004
October 2004
Court found first defendant procured title by fraud, set aside titles and ordered possession returned to the plaintiffs.
  • Succession and estate administration — inclusion of partially-paid government house in Will; validity of Local Court letters of administration where testator left a Will; fraud in procurement of administration orders and state title; nemo dat quod non habet — purchaser/mortgagee cannot acquire better title; cancellation of Certificates of Title under Lands and Deeds Registry Act; declaratory relief and possession; damages assessment.
6 October 2004
August 2004
Applicants failed on judicial review: tribunal’s finding of unauthorized conversion under section 4(d) valid; no breach of natural justice.
  • Administrative law — judicial review limited to process not merits; Parliamentary & Ministerial Code — section 4(d) converting government property; Illegality and irrationality standards; natural justice and admissibility of complainant’s investigative statements.
30 August 2004
Court ordered substitution of the representative defendant and permitted substitution of contemnors under inherent jurisdiction, excluding immune and deceased persons.
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25 August 2004
March 2004
High Court lacks jurisdiction over matrimonial property from a customary marriage dissolved in a Local Court absent transfer or appeal.
  • Family law — matrimonial property — customary marriage dissolved by Local Court — High Court jurisdiction — English divorce law governs High Court matrimonial causes — transfer or appeal required for High Court jurisdiction
6 March 2004