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December 2025
Kadzamira v Sub Traditional Authority Kawere & 3 Others v Attorney General( Ministry of Lands) (Civil Cause 373 of 2020) [2025] MWHCCiv 15 (30 December 2025)
The claimant’s late-registered lease was void; earlier registered lease prevails and the trespass claim is dismissed.
  • Deeds Registration Act — mandatory registration period; late registration renders instrument void — priority of registration under s.8
  • Trespass — possessory tort; possession ordinarily sufficient but yields to superior registered title. Nemo dat quod non habet — unregistered surrender ineffective; re-grant by minister invalid if prior lease subsists. Res judicata — default judicial review judgment not a merits-based bar; identity of parties and merits required
  • Limitation — bars affirmative claims but does not preclude defendants relying on historical title defensively
  • Relief — interlocutory injunction vacated; court-directed survey to demarcate customary land boundaries
30 December 2025
Anderson Msosa & Justice Anastanzia Msosa (RTD) v Yohane Chikopa & Another (Civil Cause 122 of 2025) [2025] MWHCCiv 18 (17 December 2025)
17 December 2025