Skip to document content Skip to main menu Skip to search

High Court of Tanzania

This is the second level in the Judiciary justice delivery hierarchy. It has both appellate and original powers on civil and criminal matters. It also hears appeals from the Courts of Resident Magistrate, the District Courts, and the District Land and Housing Tribunals in exercise of their original, appellate and/or revisional jurisdiction. The High Court is divided into Zones and specialized Divisions.

Physical address

24 Kivukoni Road, P O Box: S.L.P. 9004

Visit website

https://jmap.judiciary.go.tz/jmap/jmap-hc

2 judgments

Advanced search

Browse by year

Browse by month

Filter documents by title

Sort documents by

2 judgments


April 1992
Republic vs Stephano Luchabanya (Criminal Sessions Case No 79 of 1989) [1992] TZHC 646 (30 April 1992) Night‑time visual identification found unsafe; both accused acquitted for lack of reliable identification evidence. Criminal law — Murder: identification and credibility of eyewitnesses — Ocular identification and credibility (contradictions on place and visibility undermining prosecution case) — Visual identification (Waziri Amani v R) Criminal procedure — No case to answer — prima facie test at close of prosecution’s case	30 April 1992
Republic vs Shabani Saidi (Criminal Sessions Case No. 23 of 1990) [1992] TZHC 517 (23 April 1992) Accused proved to have killed the deceased but acquitted by reason of insanity and ordered detained for treatment. Criminal law — murder versus insanity — medical and witness evidence establishing legal insanity — special finding — detention as criminal lunatic pending Minister's order	23 April 1992