Court of Appeal · [2026] ZMCA 135 · 5 August 2026

Hotellier Limited v Eastern and Southern Africa Trade and Development Bank (CAZ/08/619/2024) [2026] ZMCA 135 (5 August 2026)

A defective-form interlocutory notice need not be dismissed if it does not affect substance, and should be heard first when issues are not intertwined. Flynote Civil Procedure — Interlocutory Applications — Compliance with prescribed form — Deviation not fatal where substance unaffected (Interpretation and General Provisions Act s 47) — Preliminary Objections — Timing of determination — Whether preliminary objection should be heard before main application when issues are not intertwined — Discretion guided by connectedness of issues Read full summary

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