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Recent Judgments
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Appeal allowed: identification unreliable and accomplice evidence inconsistent, conviction quashed and sentence set aside.
Criminal law – sexual offence (sodomy) – visual identification reliability where complainant intoxicated – accomplice evidence and requirement of independent corroboration – inconsistent timelines as undermining identification evidence – misdirection by lower courts.
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17 February 2026 |
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Appeal against murder conviction dismissed; reliable visual ID and postmortem evidence proved malice aforethought.
Criminal law – Murder – Visual identification (Waziri Amani criteria) – Postmortem evidence – Alibi notice and evaluation (s.200 CPA) – Failure to call a witness – Inferring malice aforethought from a single deep chest stab wound.
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17 February 2026 |
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Conviction for murder upheld: circumstantial evidence and confessions proved guilt and malice aforethought.
Criminal law – murder – circumstantial evidence – confession and cautioned statement – discovery of body – admissibility – evaluation of evidence on first appeal – proof beyond reasonable doubt – malice aforethought.
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17 February 2026 |
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Appeal dismissed: child's credible, corroborated testimony upheld; second‑count conviction and life sentence affirmed; first count acquitted.
Criminal law — Sexual offences against a child — Credibility of child complainant and corroboration by parent and medical evidence; admissibility of PF3 when maker testifies; burden of proof remains on prosecution; failure to cross‑examine a factor but not conclusive; alibi requirements; life sentence for offence against a minor under section 154(2).
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17 February 2026 |
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Appellant's cautioned and oral confessions plus last-person-seen inference sustained murder conviction; appeal dismissed.
Criminal law – Murder – Circumstantial evidence – Last person seen with the deceased – Admissibility and corroboration of cautioned and oral confessions – Recovery of body and postmortem findings – Burden of proof and evaluation of defence.
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17 February 2026 |
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Appeal allowed: acquittal vacated where dismissal was premature; matter remitted for trial continuation.
Criminal procedure – adjournment and court discretion – substitution of witnesses – dismissal for want of prosecution versus discharge – acquittal and bar to retrial – remittal for continuation of trial.
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17 February 2026 |
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Conviction quashed where no certificate of seizure, arresting officers not called, and retracted cautioned statement improperly admitted.
Criminal law – Burglary and theft – Doctrine of recent possession – Requirement of certificate of seizure and testimony of arresting officers – Retracted cautioned statement – Mandatory trial-within-trial – Adverse inference – Conviction quashed.
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17 February 2026 |
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Whether exempting public‑sector lawyers from Law School requirements unlawfully discriminates against private‑sector lawyers.
Constitutional law — Equality and non-discrimination — Law School of Tanzania Act s.2(2),(3) and GN. No. 839/2023 — statutory exemption for public-sector lawyers — indirect discrimination and proportionality — operative fact preserving past admissions.
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17 February 2026 |
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Challenge to ex parte tribunal decision must be by setting it aside at the tribunal, not by immediate appeal.
Land law – District Land and Housing Tribunal – ex parte hearing – lack of notice – appropriate remedy is an application to the tribunal to set aside its ex parte decision, not an immediate appeal; extension of time to appeal refused.
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17 February 2026 |
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Court granted interim injunction preventing respondent auctioning mortgaged properties pending final determination of the main suit.
Civil procedure — Temporary injunction (Order XXXVII Rule 1(a) CPC) — Attilio v Mbowe test — prima facie triable issue — irreparable injury (matrimonial home) — balance of convenience — restraining sale of mortgaged property pending suit.
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17 February 2026 |
Recent Legislation
| Government Notice 688 of 2025 | 19 December 2025 | |
| Government Notice 689 of 2025 | 19 December 2025 | |
| Government Notice 690 of 2025 | 19 December 2025 | |
| Government Notice 685 of 2025 | 19 December 2025 | |
| Government Notice 686 of 2025 | 19 December 2025 | |
| Government Notice 675 of 2025 | 5 December 2025 | |
| Government Notice 652 of 2025 | 7 November 2025 | |
| Government Notice 650 of 2025 | 7 November 2025 | |
| Government Notice 649 of 2025 | 7 November 2025 | |
| Government Notice 654 of 2025 | 7 November 2025 |
Recent Gazettes
| 6 February 2026 | |
| 30 January 2026 | |
| 23 January 2026 | |
| 16 January 2026 | |
| 9 January 2026 |
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