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The High Court dismissed a review application, holding that irregular participation of additional tribunal members during a land dispute hearing was fatal.
Once the trial court found no valid marriage between the parties, it lacked jurisdiction to determine ownership of the disputed land as matrimonial property; any claim over land ownership must be pursued in a competent land tribunal or court.
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The High Court partly allowed a land appeal, setting aside a tribunal relief order that granted relief beyond the pleadings while leaving other findings intact.
The High Court nullified a land tribunal decision after finding fatal irregularities in party identity, assessor procedure, and the handling of the disputed land record.
The Court of Appeal held that the High Court wrongly failed to consider alleged irregularities in the trial proceedings and granted extension of time to appeal.
The High Court at Bukoba refused leave and extension of time to seek revision of a CMA ruling, finding no sufficient reason for the delay and treating the application as an abuse of process.
Failure to require assessors to give their opinion in writing and to read those opinions to the parties before judgment constitutes a fatal irregularity, vitiating the tribunal proceedings and judgment.
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Material noncompliance with principles for visitation of locus in quo constitutes a fatal irregularity that vitiates the proceedings; the trial tribunal's proceedings are nullified and remitted for retrial.
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The High Court held that irregular substitution of primary court assessors made the trial and first appeal proceedings a nullity, and allowed the appeal.
The High Court held that criminal proceedings were vitiated where a person other than the complainant conducted the case, rendering the trial and appeal null.
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