Skip to document content Skip to main menu Skip to search

Principal Registry Lusaka - 2020 July

3 judgments
Advanced search
Skip past Court registries
Skip past years
Skip past months
Filters
Skip to results
3 judgments
July 2020
Lomanzi Banda and Anor v Double Impact Construction Limited and Ors (2019/HP/0392) [2020] ZMHC 464 (20 July 2020)
An interlocutory injunction was refused where the disputed pipe had been removed and damages were an adequate remedy.
  • Interlocutory injunctions — requirement of clear right and irreparable injury — useful purpose/mootness where subject matter removed — adequacy of damages as remedy — American Cyanamid principles.
20 July 2020
The People v Sley Njalika (HP/101/2020) [2020] ZMHC 451 (17 July 2020)
Acquittal where identification was unreliable, alibi unrefuted, and ballistic evidence failed to corroborate prosecution case.
  • Criminal law — Identification evidence — single identifying witness — reliability in poor visibility and traumatic circumstances; Alibi — prosecution duty to disprove; Ballistic evidence — chain of custody and corroboration; Proof beyond reasonable doubt.
17 July 2020
Nokuthula Gondwe v Jim Majere Gondwe (2015/HP/D0316) [2020] ZMHC 456 (10 July 2020)
A civil marriage contracted while a party is already customarily married is void ab initio, preventing a divorce of that supposed statutory marriage.
  • Family law — validity of civil conversion of customary polygamous marriage — capacity to contract second marriage — Marriage Act monogamy — Matrimonial Causes Act s27(1)(b) — void ab initio.
10 July 2020