Search judgments by proposition, citation, court, judge or legal topic, then move directly into the source-grounded case analysis.
Results update automatically as you type.
Tanzania decisions
Decisions matching the current search
Failure by trial magistrate to append signature to witness evidence is an incurable irregularity that vitiates proceedings; conviction and sentence are quashed and retrial ordered as prosecution had established the case to the required standard but technical errors occurred.
Source excerpt
The Court of Appeal nullified a murder trial for inadequate summing up to assessors, quashed the conviction and sentence, and remitted the record for fresh proceedings.
The Court of Appeal held that defects in selecting and informing assessors, together with a joint assessor opinion, nullified the trial and ordered a retrial.
The trial judge improperly disclosed his own views during summing-up, influencing assessors and vitiating the proceedings; this procedural irregularity requires nullification of the trial and judgment.
Source excerpt
Omission to sum up evidence of all witnesses and failure to address assessors on circumstantial evidence vitiated the trial, rendering the proceedings, judgment, and sentence a nullity.
Source excerpt
The Court of Appeal nullified a murder trial for serious assessors’ irregularities, quashed the conviction and death sentence, and refused a retrial.
The trial was a nullity because the Principal Resident Magistrate who presided over the case was not assigned by the High Court as required by law, thus lacked jurisdiction.
Source excerpt
The trial court's failure to comply with section 231 of the Criminal Procedure Act by not informing the appellant of his rights to defence constituted a fundamental procedural irregularity that occasioned injustice, vitiating the trial and appellate proceedings.
Source excerpt
Failure by the successor judge to assign reasons for taking over the trial as required by section 299(1) of the Criminal Procedure Act rendered the proceedings and judgment a nullity, necessitating quashing and retrial.
Source excerpt
Failure by the successor judge to assign reasons for taking over the trial contravened section 299(1) of the Criminal Procedure Act, rendering all subsequent proceedings, judgment, and sentence a nullity.
Source excerpt
Explore more
