Court of Appeal of Tanzania

This is the highest level in the justice delivery system in Tanzania. The Court of Appeal draws its mandate from Article 117(1) of the Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania. The Court hears appeals  on both point of law and facts for cases originating from the High Court of Tanzania and Magistrates with extended jurisdiction in exercise of their original jurisdiction or appellate and revisional jurisdiction over matters originating in the District Land and Housing Tribunals, District Courts and Courts of Resident Magistrate. The Court also hears similar appeals  from quasi judicial bodies of status equivalent to that of the High Court. It  further hears appeals  on point of law against the decision of the High Court in  matters originating from Primary Courts. The Court of Appeal also exercises jurisdiction on appeals originating from the High Court of Zanzibar except for constitutional issues arising from the interpretation of the Constitution of Zanzibar and matters arising from the Kadhi Court.

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26 Kivukoni Road Building P.O. Box 9004, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
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Judgment date
November 1998
Reported

Criminal Practice and Procedure - Appeals - Appeals against Interlocutory Orders - Whether appellable by the Director of Public Prosecutions - Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1979, s 6(2).
Criminal Practice and Procedure - Incomplete trial within a trial Whether Court can make a ruling on it.
Natural Justice - The right to be head in criminal trials - The right of the prosecution to be heard.

8 November 1998
August 1998
Prospects of success alone do not justify a stay; special circumstances are required and were not shown by the applicant.
Civil procedure – Stay of execution pending appeal – applicant must show more than prospects of success; special or exceptional circumstances required – mere business hardship or post-judgment robbery insufficient. Judgment debtor’s ability to pay and creditor’s assets relevant to discretion to stay execution.
17 August 1998

(Application for execution of the decree from the judgment of the 'High Court of Tanzania at Arusha, Munuo, J., dated 23 August 1996, in Civil Case No.3 of 1993)

17 August 1998