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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. 

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October 1989
Republic vs Nyangeta D/O Somba and Others (Criminal Sessions Case No. 123 of 1988) [1989] TZHC 752 (6 October 1989)
Identification in a chaotic mob was unreliable; prosecution failed to prove common intention to murder, accused acquitted.
Criminal law – Murder – Mob violence and lynching – Reliability of visual identification in chaotic/panic conditions – Doctrine of common intention – Requirement that death be a probable consequence of the common unlawful purpose – Alternative verdicts (assault causing actual bodily harm).
 6 October 1989
June 1989
Adamu Lucas vs Kitangita Kasawa (PC Civil Appeal No. 229 of 1988) [1989] TZHC 676 (20 June 1989)
Concurrent findings that attached cattle belonged to a third party (father‑in‑law) were upheld; appeal dismissed with costs.
* Civil procedure – execution and attachment – third‑party claim to attached goods – proof of ownership by third party. * Evidence – concurrent findings of primary and district courts – appellate interference only where findings are unsupported or perverse. * Customary law – bridewealth/return of dowry – effect on proprietary rights in execution proceedings.
 20 June 1989