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The High Court dismissed a church dispute over use of a former registered name, finding no sufficient evidence of fraudulent use or proven damages.
Section 17(2) of the Trustees Incorporation Act does not oust the District Court's jurisdiction; the dispute is not strictly religious and the parties' relationship to BAKWATA was not pleaded, so the trial court erred in requiring exhaustion of BAKWATA's internal mechanisms.
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The High Court dismissed an interim injunction bid against a Sunni Muslim Jamaat committee meeting, citing lack of a necessary party and failure to exhaust statutory dispute channels.
Appeal over a church dispute was dismissed. The court held it would not interfere in internal religious management and enforced the parties’ consent-based reconciliation.
The High Court dismissed a church leadership appeal, holding it would not adjudicate internal religious management issues and enforcing a reconciliation order reached through UMPT Mbeya Zone.
The Court of Appeal held that T.A.G.’s operative constitution was the 1978 version, upheld registration as a society, and dismissed the appeal.
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