LAU0 JUDGMENT
Failure to tender and admit the Marriage Conciliation Board certificate renders the trial a nullity and invalidates subsequent proceedings and judgments.
- Citation
- LAU0 JUDGMENT
- Parties
- Appellant: FGL; Respondent: DNM
- Court
- TANZLII
- Jurisdiction
- Tanzania
- Judgment Date
- 28 February 2025
- Procedural Posture
- Civil Appeal / Judgment
- Outcome
- proceedings, judgments and orders of trial and first appellate courts nullified and quashed
- Legal Topics
- Matrimonial Proceedings, Divorce, Jurisdiction, Evidence Admissibility
- Source Language
- English
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Parties
FGL
Appellant
DNM
Respondent
Procedural Posture
Civil Appeal / Judgment
Legal Issues
- 1 Whether failure to tender the Marriage Conciliation Board certificate renders the trial a nullity
- 2 Whether attachment of the certificate to pleadings suffices as evidence
Ratio Decidendi
Failure to tender and admit the Marriage Conciliation Board certificate renders the trial a nullity and invalidates subsequent proceedings and judgments.
Court Disposition
proceedings, judgments and orders of trial and first appellate courts nullified and quashed
Orders
- Parties at liberty to file fresh petition subject to compliance with law
- No order as to costs
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