{"id":212018,"date":"2025-10-31T08:20:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-businessman-fabris-told-to-live-with-lawyers-negligence-as-court-slams-bid-to-overturn-u-s-500000-default-judgment\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T08:20:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:20:59","slug":"zimbabwe-businessman-fabris-told-to-live-with-lawyers-negligence-as-court-slams-bid-to-overturn-u-s-500000-default-judgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-businessman-fabris-told-to-live-with-lawyers-negligence-as-court-slams-bid-to-overturn-u-s-500000-default-judgment\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Businessman Fabris Told to Live With Lawyer&#8217;s Negligence As Court Slams Bid to Overturn U.S.$500,000 Default Judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The High Court has dismissed businessman Luka Ignatius Fabris&#8217;s bid to overturn a US$500,000 default judgment granted in favour of Tendai Mashamhanda, ruling that Fabris must face the consequences of his lawyer&#8217;s negligence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Justice Jacob Manzunzu threw out Fabris&#8217;s application for rescission of judgment, which sought to undo the ruling granted after he failed to respond to Mashamhanda&#8217;s lawsuit over an unpaid loan, describing his explanation as unreasonable and his defence as &#8220;devoid of bona&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510300579.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court has dismissed businessman Luka Ignatius Fabris&#8217;s bid to overturn a US$500,000 default judgment granted in favour of Tendai Mashamhanda, ruling that Fabris must face the consequences of his lawyer&#8217;s negligence. Justice Jacob Manzunzu threw out Fabris&#8217;s application for rescission of judgment, which sought to undo the ruling granted after he failed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,10798,18594,6185,24093,52746,7382,8569,9191,32095,257,21344,9757,254,7278,45117,4686,421],"class_list":["post-212018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bid","tag-businessman","tag-court","tag-default","tag-fabris","tag-judgment","tag-lawyers","tag-live","tag-negligence","tag-news","tag-overturn","tag-slams","tag-south-africa-today","tag-told","tag-u-s-500000","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}