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The High Court held that omission of the advocate’s signature on the plaint was a curable defect, while the verification-clause objection was not a pure point of law.
Failure by the trial chairman to append his signature to the record of the testimony of each witness is a fatal irregularity that renders the proceedings and judgment of the trial tribunal a nullity, necessitating a retrial.
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The trial Chairman's failure to append his signature after recording the evidence of each witness constitutes an incurable procedural irregularity, rendering the proceedings and judgment of the trial tribunal invalid and necessitating a retrial.
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The omission by the DLHT Chairman to append his signature after recording the testimonies of witnesses constituted an incurable irregularity, vitiating the entire proceedings, judgment, and decree, which are thus declared a nullity.
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The High Court held that failure by the tribunal chairperson to sign after each witness testimony vitiated the proceedings and ordered a de-novo hearing.
Failure by the trial tribunal chairperson to append signature at the end of each witness's testimony constitutes a fatal procedural irregularity, rendering the proceedings, judgment, and decree null and void.
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The High Court struck out a criminal second appeal because the petition of appeal was unsigned and therefore incompetent under the Magistrates Courts Act.
The High Court at Arusha dismissed the suit on a preliminary objection after the plaintiffs conceded it was re-filed outside the 14-day court order.
The Court of Appeal struck out a notice of appeal for being defective and for failure to take required procedural steps within time.
The Labour Division held that unsigned CMA forms were a curable procedural defect, set aside the ruling, and sent the complaint back for a fresh hearing.
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