Artwell Mazango & Bethel Mazango & Fountain Investments (Private) Limited v Fay Veermak & Fatima Veronica Veermak & Sheriff of the High Court

Key Issues

• {"issue_text":"Whether the applicants had established special circumstances warranting substituted service by publication in the Herald newspaper.","issue_type":"procedural","dispositive":"yes","related_facts":"The applicants' employee failed to locate the respondents at their last known address; the applicants sought to serve by publication in the Herald newspaper."}
• {"issue_text":"Whether the applicants had complied with the requirements of rule 19 of the High Court Rules, particularly in showing why service could not be effected in any of the ways provided in rule 15 and in indicating the best manner in which service could be effected.","issue_type":"procedural","dispositive":"yes","related_facts":"The applicants had not shown why service could not be effected under rule 15; they had not indicated why publication in the Herald was the best manner of service."}

Background