20090504 TZHC Dar es Salaam

.I(,--•- . ~ l 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF TANZANIA AT DAR ES .SALAAM ,-., ✓ ; ' ; ·.. Ji{;;:; i';~i•f'''' . • .. ·r.- ifi:,·&'?ft'h.~ ·. 7 (Originating from Mo~ogoro D/c:Jt•ir~;# iVl:l.~c-. t.iv.: Application No. 3/2006) LAZARO URASSA APPLICANT DIRECTOR SADDIQ,qt,J.~ •~!-_. ::;.i3._!..,l,,■••··"· RESPONDENT Date of Last Order Date of Ruling RU.LING SHANGWA, J. This is an application for. re;1{i~o.~- ,6¥/tne ~ ~ ~,.tl°"' ~• J ., ,._ ~uling _of the District Court of . '' ' , _.,, .l-'"'r,, 2 24 of 2005. It is supported by affidavit of the Applicant Lazaro Urassa. In its Ruling, d :'/. ki 1 tS..,·~ !,:: ~ . " •l • ,.., the District Court of Morogoro set aside its exparte order/ judgment delivered on th 30 March, 2006 and ordered that tffeffr\atlb;rlk'hoLlld proceed inter -partes. Upon .,...,.,. ,. ·,. :·: . .;,h -~ so ordering, the plaintiff was or-d~~i~I~~~~l~(e a_·reply to the Written Statement of Defence before commencing to hear thE; :s~.i~. inter-partes. The said Ruling was :,_. ··/ :)t}.fF~_-:··=; .•,:.•_··..:·:·-,. made following an application by coun~e! fqr_the defendant Mr. Kilule to review , . : . .-r-rt~}/'._;..:·/' th the District Court's order for def~Ui{]Gliment\~hich was entered exparte on 30 March, 2006. . . ~ . ; .' . ._.: In his application for revie"'." ot,tp~!-~-P8>)!.~;m~ntiol':1ed order, learned counsel 1·: l· ' ·..:.,i i) ::J· ~~ .. '->:~f :) I for the defendant Mr. Kilule ar~N:rnB.tt~tf.R'.~'JD.istrict Court erred in law and facts -~-, ~·-~../}/:·~ ~:.1~:... 1:_:j-· in giving default judgment without fram;l7_g.JM ~es. Mr. Mzonge, PDM agreed with 1 'L-~P:t~~:'._.~.; :~:>; ';·i . :i} ·-~~-. ....' ),; ' him for the following reason: That having permitted the defendant to file his Written Statement of Defence out of time and havirg,;qr.<fe:17f,d ·. ·.· the plaintiff to file a reply thereto, (. ·.,' the Court was functus officio to dep_art,Jrom its previous order by entering a ~ ~ t f b.f'tr<.i !Q)!1 V!=t" j '-; ~ -~: .'.,! .• ,·1.tJ : it :.:!c~t_,_ ()r·t:· . default judgment. ,... ,., . 'SSL r• t·-~ ~~~il: _\.:- --./ .'.>. The Applicant in this case argu~~ that .having entered the default judgment ., and having signed the form for executiohwJ 1the, said judgment in which it was : ,n .--: .tirtfC! ':re-d-f' 1 '• ' •'" ' I '•~,! .~ .7 •; ordered that the Respondent should- pay:;hl:i:n11, a total sum of Tshs. 2,532,000/= :::.,c;ieoq/f frr , · ; which he was claiming as unpaicl'f¼1'g:e?i~t1'· af~~ars .from January, 1998 to November, 2004, it was unlawf~tN~J~\H~flltSft to go back to its previous order •·r/~t\}t'.'i··. ··;~ ·-- .. _.,..;:: l and recondition the suit for hearing inter panle,s. ( In my view, I do not agree with the Applicant that having acted as above th mentioned, it was unlawful for the District C~;>Urt to set aside its order dated 30 -· ,:t"t'l•:__.j.11,,; ·. . \•""• ,..,,.,.,... , .. ,.,,,[.( 1 March, 2006. The Court did so afte,r rea~lis'i-~f that it was wrong for it to depart ' I , . •·; l'.ill':I'.) -~ , -leur•"t F··,. · , from its previous order of allowing 4hl,,0eb~:'!l~~nt t.o file his Written Statement of \! ..! .• · · .\I 8 ,'./·:"); -,1 l'!l . , , Defence out of time and chang~7§tlJf{;~~&i;tP~',.by entering a default judgment in ·'· •-::/~·~\·:_'.~ .:i -·•~-f favour of the plaintiff / Applicant. --w~ ~},-J~'&~s~is_trict Court did in reviewing its 1 order dated 30th March, 2006 was q~'it~: ~rop~r. I do uphold its Ruling delivered : .: , i :", ·:: \ f ~"· 1 -~-' .[ :: : •· !"_i.,- l !~ ~ _ on ih January, 2007 by Mzonge1 -:,PN Jn Labour Case No. 24 of 2005 and order ' ,, ', I_ 't.• ,;\ that the suit between the partie~: sh~~)d ~cfc'eed in the same court from where it ended. I make no order as to costs._, . ~'~,.v,t-, ,, . 1as qt.lite prope, ,- •,/ I'•':\ 1,.f. l i~•:c-,•· :·; .,:.:• '•.:• i 000 : 't }ti!-:.',~•;.'\~~ •,,i,n . ,. 1ir~·1J~t~~L ~:"'; '.:·,~':;,._4:(';J_::.-· ·i.:.·<~ ! ,(i:'1:(}?}!.;i:~ :~~~::?t \' .,JUD.GJ: 2009 in the presence of the i . l :;,.i~'.-~Ii~:1r Applicant. ..·: ·,'.:•.t· !.:. . : , ~:, ,' . ~ ;\~J'.J;}J,rf ·'i,. ,\-,' ·': ::-. , l. 'JUDGE. ' ·,r4/~)~@o~