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District Court acted improperly by releasing attached motor vehicle before determining preliminary objection and revision application; proper procedure requires hearing and disposal of preliminary objection first, followed by substantive application; order of release was premature and lacked judicial basis.
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A company may institute proceedings through its secretary, director, or principal officer without a board resolution, but where an advocate signs and files pleadings, a board resolution is mandatory. The absence of such authorisation renders the proceedings incompetent.
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The High Court set aside a CMA ruling that dismissed a labour complaint as time barred, holding that the termination date and notice date required evidence.
The three-year fixed term contract commenced on 1st January 2016 and expired on 31st December 2018; the arbitrator did not err in holding the contract expired at that time. Documents filed out of time by the respondent were wrongly admitted without leave and are expunged, but this does not affect the outcome as the contract had expired by operation of law.
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The High Court allowed revision and set aside the CMA award on underpaid wages, holding that the employment contract required arbitration for such disputes.
The High Court dismissed a labour revision challenging CMA’s refusal to condone a late referral, holding the bias complaint and objection point were improperly raised.
The purpose of the Advocates Act provisions is to prohibit unqualified persons from practicing law; if a qualified advocate draws a document under a business name, omission of the advocate's name does not render the pleading incurably defective and is curable by amendment.
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The preliminary objections raised require factual determination and do not qualify as pure points of law; courts in Tanzania can grant relief in foreign currency; the plaint sufficiently discloses jurisdiction; amendment to pre-empt a preliminary objection is not permissible.
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Points of preliminary objection requiring factual proof or going to the merits of the case cannot be entertained as preliminary objections. The court is not limited to granting reliefs only in Tanzanian Shillings, as current jurisprudence allows judgments in foreign currency. The plaint, when read as a whole, sufficiently discloses facts showing jurisdiction. Amendment to pre-empt a preliminary objection is not permissible.
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The High Court reviewed and reinstated a dismissed application after finding it had overlooked a pending extension-of-time request and that review was properly filed.
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