Sign in
Tanzania Source-linked decisions Coverage checked

Tanzania Case Law

Search judgments by proposition, citation, court, judge or legal topic, then move directly into the source-grounded case analysis.

Courts on this page
0 court collections
Last checked

Tanzania decisions

Decisions matching the current search

Clear filters
Land law

Hawa Edgar vs Elizabeth Ijoka Jagale

The High Court allowed the appeal, set aside the tribunal’s striking-out order, and held the pleadings disclosed trespass, not breach of lease.

  • Jurisdiction
  • Preliminary objection
  • Lease agreement
  • Trespass / unlawful invasion
  • Appeal from tribunal
  • Preliminary-objection
Read case analysis
Land law

GEOFREY JAFET ANANIA vs AMIRI ABDULRAHMAN KIROBOTO

The High Court at Tanga allowed a land appeal, expunged Exhibit R1, set aside the tribunal decision, and declared the appellant the lawful owner.

  • Ownership of land
  • Trespass
  • Pleadings and counterclaims
  • Burden of proof
  • Admissibility of documentary evidence
  • Functus officio
Read case analysis
Civil procedure

JEM'STRADERS & FINANCIAL SERVICES COMPANY LIMITED and Jacob Enock Mgimba vs Self Microfinance Fund (MFUKO FUND), Spytech and Security Supplies Ltd, and The Attorney General

The High Court at Mbeya held that a status quo order sought over land was, in substance, a temporary injunction barred against Government entities.

  • Temporary injunction
  • Status quo order
  • Preliminary objection
  • Government entities
  • Maintainability of application
  • Attachment and sale of secured property
Read case analysis
Land law

Mary Elly Mwenda v Ephraim Elisante Muro

The High Court allowed a land appeal after finding the tribunal judgment was nullity for failing to incorporate assessors’ opinions, and set the award aside.

  • Assessor opinions in tribunal proceedings
  • Proof of ownership/purchase of land
  • Nullity of judgment for procedural irregularity
  • Costs
  • Land-disputes
  • Tribunal-procedure
Read case analysis
Land law

Paschalina Nada v Ami Qamara

The High Court partly allowed the land appeal, quashed the tribunal’s decision, and ordered a retrial de novo because of interpreter and land-identification defects.

  • Ownership of land
  • Boundary/identity of land
  • Interpreter oath or affirmation
  • Procedural irregularity
  • Burden of proof
  • Retrial de novo
Read case analysis

About this LexChat collection

Tanzania decisions are organised by court, judge, legal area and indexed issue so a practitioner can move from a proposition to a citable authority with the surrounding context intact.