RIVERSIDE ENTERPRISES & ORS v ZIMBABWE TOURISM AUTHORITY & ANOR 2020 (1) ZLR 1056 (S)

2020 (1) ZLR p1056

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Costs – de bonis propriis – against legal practitioner – practitioner filing notice of appeal in Supreme Court but failing to serve notice on Registrar of High Court – no record prepared – registrar erring in ordering appeal abandoned – application to reinstate appeal – no mention in application of practitioner's failure to serve – absence of legal practitioner and firm's supervisor from practice during period for service – failure to verify lack of service until informed of such by respondent's practitioner – appeal a nullity – practitioner persisting in application – appropriate case for award of costs de bonis propriis