MVEMVE v NATIONAL RAILWAYS OF ZIMBABWE 2015 (2) ZLR 338 (H)

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Practice and procedure – provisional sentence – claim for arrears salaries and bonus – employer's letters accepting claim for arrear salaries and equivocal on position regarding bonus and other claims – whether constitute liquid documents.

Practice and procedure – provisional sentence – claim for arrear salaries – no liquid document – Order 4 rule 34 of the High Court Rules, 1971 – whether court can stand matter over for trial of labour matter.

Costs – attorney and client costs – provisional sentence procedure incompetently adopted – notice of opposition raising objection on the point – plaintiff persisted with claim – whether plaintiff should pay legal practitioner and client costs.