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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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January 1976
Republic vs Gritica s/o Shija (Criminal Sessions Case No. 113 of 1976) [1976] TZHC 286 (1 January 1976)
Discovery of a long‑term partner in bed with another amounted to provocation, reducing murder to manslaughter; identification evidence proved decisive.
Criminal law – Identification evidence – reliability of identification by victim and supporting eyewitnesses. Criminal law – Alibi – assessment of credibility and afterthoughts. Family law – Cohabitation – presumption of marriage under s.160 Law of Marriage Act based on long cohabitation. Criminal law – Provocation – discovery of long‑term partner in bed with another; reduction of murder to manslaughter. Criminal procedure – s.181(2) CPC – court's power to convict of lesser offence. Sentencing – mitigating factors weighed against brutal nature of assault (multiple panga wounds).
 1 January 1976
Republic vs Ilango Kimwili and Others (Criminal Sessions Case No. 18 of 1976) [1976] TZHC 291 (1 January 1976)
Child identification corroborated by forensic and circumstantial evidence sufficed to convict the respondents of murder.
Criminal law – Murder; identification evidence by child witnesses; competence and corroboration of tender‑age witnesses; circumstantial evidence; forensic blood‑group evidence (bedsheet) as corroboration; assessment of alibi defences.
 1 January 1976