19970703 TZHC Tabora
Failure to sit with the required number of assessors in objection proceedings is a fatal irregularity that invalidates the proceedings and the resulting decision.
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- Citation
- 19970703 TZHC Tabora
- Parties
- Respondent: Yasfi Shimba; Appellant: Juma Paul Nayafumu Ngusa
- Court
- TZHC
- Jurisdiction
- Tanzania
- Judgment Date
- 3 July 1997
- Procedural Posture
- Civil Appeal / Judgment
- Outcome
- objection proceedings and resulting decision quashed; appeal quashed; retrial ordered
- Legal Topics
- Adultery Claim, Objection Proceedings, Composition of Court, Primary Court Procedure
- Source Language
- en
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Parties
Yasfi Shimba
Respondent
Juma Paul Nayafumu Ngusa
Appellant
Procedural Posture
Civil Appeal / Judgment
Legal Issues
- 1 Whether the objection proceedings were valid given the absence of assessors as required by law
- 2 Whether the resulting decision and subsequent appeal are valid
Ratio Decidendi
Failure to sit with the required number of assessors in objection proceedings is a fatal irregularity that invalidates the proceedings and the resulting decision.
Court Disposition
objection proceedings and resulting decision quashed; appeal quashed; retrial ordered
Orders
- Objection proceedings to be heard de novo before another magistrate with competent jurisdiction
- No order as to costs
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF 'j)'.\J,.. ,.-..'.:.-1'11.ti - AT TABO?c.A ....-.:-::....:... :!II# P G. CIVI~ APPEAL NO. 77 OF 1996 OR' L Cr°VIL CA SE NOo· 26/95 MWANtriNI • '. . • . . I P/ coua'~ &.CI_ VIµ -Ar~ NO., 10 /9 5 SH.INYA N-OA ,, -DISTRICT .COURT .. , •·,· . VERSUS ... YA Sfi 'ID SHIMBA ••••• • ••••• • • ~ • •• • o o •• • • • o •• • • • • • RESPONDENT J U D G E M E -~_'!'. WI OONJ.A, J,. I In the original- preceedings before the Mwa.n tini ,frima.ry Court N~nzalima. ~li ba.~ successfully ·sued ::Juma._-p~U:f ·N\8.yafumu C \ ' 'l' Ngusa for d.ama.ges on a claim of adultery. he 'judgment of the ,. mial court conforms in all ma. ter.ial, particula·rs to the · ; ·..... L. f: __ SorJrat of a prima.ry court decision or judgment as laid down under the (Primary ~gistrate Courts) (Judgment of court) Rules, 1987: as. Public by Government Notice No. 2 of \ . 19880 It would a_p~r that there arese objection proceedings in respect of the execution of the decree ot the trial courte The trial Primary Court M,t gi strata heard and determi~ J ned the objections aboveo None of-the assessors he sat with in detemining the ma.in suit participated in the objection proceedingso The conduct of the ohj ecti on proceedings contravenced the provisions of section 7 of the the 11'.agistrats' Courts Ii ct, 1984, which provides that •in every in such court, including a finding, t~e court shall sit With not less than two assessorso Failure to do so in valid.a ted the en ti re proceedings,, By reason of the icurable irregularity from the objection _proceedinge suffer, I quash both the proceedings and the decision thereon... The first appelJ.A.-+;,::, ;-:ro:::·::~di.nge which stem from the obj eo-;;:~ c-., ~rr- 0 0 ,::lJ_.., "'f" ?. r-:; _:• .i.kewise quashedG· It is ordered thai;· the objection proc'::Y)dings be heard de novo before another M:tgi.state with competent jurisdictiorit, This appeal has been. determined in terms of the ,Proviso to section 35,of the M:igistrates Court Act 19840 There shall be no order as 'to costs, ...... / ...--.::· .. '.l ,"\ ;r,. Mo M1 CK.1NJ/1 ) •. < JUDcm )t) \ .· I. 3/7/1997 (· T,.~ BOR.1 ··: ,, ... .. ~- •' ·. l.