Read the Rules on TanzLII
Court rules are often pretty boring to outsiders. Usually they are only of interest to lawyers who must obey them to the letter so they don’t get into trouble and make a mistake about filing deadlines, for example.
As I read the decisions of Tanzania’s highest court for its last session of 2018, I was shocked by what I found. In one appeal after another the judges agreed that the trial court had made errors so serious that they “vitiated” the proceedings, and the accused had to be released at once.
THE website of Tanzania’s CRDB Bank makes much of this being the country’s largest private bank, of its awards for progressive policies and practices and of its good relations with customers. It even advertises itself as “the bank that listens”. With all that energy and hype around a friendly, efficient and profitable profile, it must have been devastating when the high court ordered the bank to pay a massive USD 30m plus interest in damages and lost business opportunities to an unhappy businessman and client.
