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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.		Judgment	7 February 2025
R v Uzioigwe (Case No. 03 of 2024 (Being criminal case No. 05 of 2024)) [2024] MWHC 61 (20 November 2024) Whether seized foreign currency should be forfeited where a businessperson hid funds and used a fake receipt, outweighing mitigating circumstances. Exchange control — Regulation 36(1) discretionary forfeiture of foreign currency — judicial exercise of discretion — aggravating factors (large sum, concealment, forged receipt, business person) v. mitigating factors (first offender, plea, alleged hardship) — precedents: Kamanga; Zheng Yan; Henry Kopa; Ashraf Bdallal El Ali — requirement to hear accused in opposition to forfeiture.		Judgment	20 November 2024
Batatawala and Another v Director of Anti Corruption Bureau and Another (Constitutional Cause 1 of 2023) [2024] MWHC 19 (10 April 2024) Retrospective application of the FCA was found by necessary implication but did not violate constitutional protections against conviction for non-offences. Constitutional law — retrospectivity of statutes — Financial Crimes Act section 42 vs repealed MLA section 35 — interpretation of saving provision section 141(2) FCA — right not to be convicted for non-existent offence and protection against harsher retrospective penalties — procedural commencement via constitutional referral (Order 19 CPR).		Judgment	10 April 2024