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The High Court granted certification of a point of law for a proposed appeal, focusing on the legal effect of a 2007 order and a later land sale.
The High Court dismissed a land appeal for want of prior ward tribunal mediation, holding the requirement applies to all land disputes before the DLHT.
The High Court allowed a criminal appeal, holding that the District Commissioner lacked authority to issue the order said to have been disobeyed.
The High Court dismissed a land ownership suit, holding that the defendants’ Certificates of Title proved ownership and the plaintiff failed to disprove them.
The Court of Appeal held that Mto wa Mbu Ward Tribunal lacked jurisdiction over land in Makuyuni Ward, quashed its proceedings and later appeals, and left the Makuyuni decision in force.
The High Court allowed a land appeal, holding that the appellant’s family had acquired the disputed land by adverse possession after long, uninterrupted occupation.
Both the primary and district courts lacked jurisdiction to entertain the land dispute as the matter should have been filed before the Village Land Council; all proceedings and orders are nullities.
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The High Court held that magistrates’ courts lacked jurisdiction over the land dispute, declared the lower proceedings null and void, and dismissed the appeal.
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