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February 2025
Mukteshwar Sugar Mills Ltd v Salima Sugar Company Ltd (Commercial Cause 136 of 2024) [2025] MWHC 4 (7 February 2025)
Ex parte freezing injunction vacated after applicant suppressed material related‑party and forensic‑audit facts.
  • Civil procedure — freezing injunctions — Order 10 r.11, r.12(2)(b) CPR — requirements: good and arguable case, assets likely to form part of judgment, risk of dissipation — equitable relief requires full and frank disclosure — clean hands doctrine — proportionality of freezing orders — relevance of forensic audit and related-party conflicts.
7 February 2025
Almeida v Almeida (Being Civil Appeal No. 6 of 2024) [2025] MWHC 8 (3 February 2025)
Court orders pending appeal to determine custody and proposed relocation, stays parallel proceedings, prioritizing the child’s best interests.
  • Family law — Child custody and access — Proposed relocation of child abroad (Portugal) — Jurisdiction to dissolve marriage — Best interests of the child (Constitution s.23) — Stay of parallel proceedings — Recusal: reasonable apprehension of bias test — Review vs appeal.
3 February 2025
Chaoloka v The Attorney General (Ministre of Finance & Economic Affairs) (IRC MATTER 1294 of 2022) [2025] MWHC 5 (3 February 2025)
Failure to serve the mandatory pre‑suit notice and the time‑barred nature of the dispute rendered the applicants’ claim and motion a nullity.
  • Civil procedure — pre‑suit notice mandatory under Civil Procedure (Suits By and Against Government) Act s4 — non‑compliance renders action a nullity; administrative law — challenges to Ministerial implementation of statutory pension scheme are matters for judicial review; limitation — three‑month rule for judicial review; declaratory relief cannot circumvent pre‑suit notice requirement.
3 February 2025
Kasuma v Micro Loan Foundation Ltd (IRC MATTER 610 of 2016) [2025] MWHC 7 (3 February 2025)
Exit agreement signed under economic duress: dismissal unfair; applicant entitled to compensation and remedy hearing.
  • Employment law — Unfair dismissal — Mutual release/exit agreement vitiated by economic duress; procedural fairness in disciplinary process; employer’s burden to prove valid reason for dismissal; compensation remedy.
3 February 2025
Mtokoma, Mailosi, Chitawira, Mtungama v College of Medicine Sports Complex (IRC MATTER 593 of 2020) [2025] MWHC 6 (3 February 2025)
Dismissals for operational requirements without consultation were unfair; applicants entitled to compensation.
  • Employment law — unfair dismissal — operational requirements/retrenchment — statutory consultation requirement — justice and equity (s.61 Employment Act) — funding contingency clause — contractual notice period — compensation assessment.
3 February 2025