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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 2015
Republic vs Boniphace s/o Wankuru @ Magabe (Criminal Session Case No. 205 of 2014) [2015] TZHC 3131 (16 October 2015)
Material conflict between eyewitnesses and medical evidence meant no prima facie case of murder; accused acquitted under s293.
Criminal law – murder charge – sufficiency of prosecution evidence; contradiction between lay testimony and medical evidence; post‑mortem findings (CVA/hemorrhagic stroke) disproving traumatic cause; failure to tender post‑mortem report; discharge under s.293 Criminal Procedure Act.
 16 October 2015
Republic vs Ramson s/o Singu (Criminal Session Case No. 50 of 2014) [2015] TZHC 3129 (13 October 2015)
Inconsistent lone nighttime identification and failure to call available witnesses warranted acquittal for no case to answer.
Criminal law — sufficiency of evidence at no-case stage; adverse inference for failure to call available witnesses; reliability of identification evidence at night; no case to answer under s.293 CPA.
 13 October 2015