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We are currently negotiating a collective bargaining agreement with a trade union. Two of the items they want to be inserted in the agreement are free drinking water to all the employees and classic new style washrooms which we find to be expensive for the company to bear. We would like to get your views […]
I am an expatriate working in Zanzibar and have a cheque drawn in my favour by my employer which I want to take with me to my home country. Ive been told that there are Regulations made by the Union Minister for Finance which bars cross border movement of cash and negotiable instruments whose value […]
Employee suspended for smelling of alcohol at workplace I am employed by a manufacturing company as a cyber security officer and have worked here for five years before I was suspended pending investigation of a misconduct which our HR Manager termed as smelling of alcohol at a workplace. It is true that the night before […]
I am an accountant working with a newly established company. We want to enter into a contract for supplying our products to another company (the purchaser). Our retained lawyers prepared a draft contract which we sent to the purchaser for signing. However, the purchaser has refused to sign the contract until we affix our company […]
Before a domestic flight takes off, it is common to hear cabin crew informing passengers about safety rules. However, in public passengers’ vehicles we rarely hear such announcements. Does it mean that we don’t have in our laws imposing on the bus crew the obligation to inform their passengers about safety rules before departure? SM, […]
My company has recently promoted a lady to be a head of our department after an annual performance appraisal. This is the first lady to be a head of department in the history of the company and she is very boastful. I have seen the performance appraisal results and noted that I had two points […]
Woman charged with seducing houseboy My friend who lives with her husband and a houseboy is charged with seducing their houseboy. The houseboy complained to the police that my friend has been seducing him when my friend’s husband is away. Is it an offence for a woman to try to have a sexual relationship with […]
Last year I booked two bus tickets for myself and my child aged two years. I intended to travel from the city where I live to another city within the country. I made a booking a day before the date of departure and on the morning of the date of departure I got an emergency […]
Institution of money laundering charge before completion of investigation My brother is charged with the offence of money laundering. It has been four months now and the prosecutor still says that the investigation of the crime is underway and the case gets adjourned. I have been told that the law has recently been amended to […]
There is a businessman who owns meat butcheries in our area. That man has been a problem because he stores skins and hides in a small store annexed to his residential house which makes the area very stinky. What action can we take? DD, Moshi The Hides, Skins and Leather Trade Act, 2008, (the Act) […]
I am a businessman running a small stationery shop. About four months ago someone I know who works in the public service came to my shop and asked me to issue him with an unfilled receipt. He offered me TZS 5000 for giving him a blank receipt but did not disclose what he was going […]
I ate in a restaurant and before paying my bill, told the owner that I will sell him the chicken bones that were left over in the plate, and then pay the difference. The owner refused and made me pay the full price on the menu although I know that he will use the chicken […]
Fraudulent pretence of marriage I have been living together and cohabitating with a man for a year believing him to be my husband. I have only discovered this year that this man is married and he left his wife in his home village. He did not disclose this to me when we began the relationship […]
Legal Update – 5 May 2022
My mother has voluntarily retired at fifty five years of age after working for more than thirty years as a midwife in government hospitals. She has opted to go to her home village where she owns a big parcel of land and wants to establish a private nursing and midwifery home. Is this allowed in Tanzania? […]
Two years back I bought a piece of unsurveyed plot in my home town. This year somebody encroached into my plot and began constructing a house on it. I instituted a suit against him in Court but on the date of hearing when I sought to tender the sale agreement, his advocate raised an objection […]
Mentally disordered person mistreated by family My neighbour has a son who is mentally disordered. Unfortunately, my neighbour beats him, day and night, despite the fact that the son is not harmful to people or animals. What can I do to stop this habit of my neighbour? Can my neighbour be punished? LK, Tabora An […]
My bar manager was arrested and charged with an offence of permitting drunkenness at the bar, which is how all bars make money everywhere in the world. On Easter Sunday, one of the customers who came became too drunk and started conducting himself disorderly. My manager phoned the police to go to the bar and […]
I have been working for a company for four months and am pregnant and about to deliver in four weeks to come. I have applied for maternity leave but the HR Manager is telling me that the leave will be unpaid because I don’t qualify for a paid maternity leave. Is this HR’s position legally […]
During Easter vacation I travelled to my home village by bus. In the course of our journey, the driver stopped the bus near a bush to allow passengers to attend a short call of nature. Is this common behaviour not regulated by the law? GK, Dar It is contrary to regulation 10(2)(f) of the Land […]
Involuntary HIV test I am charged with rape and my trial is about to start. After my arrest I was detained at a police station for two days. While at the police station, police took me to a health centre where my blood sample was drawn but I was not told for what purpose it […]
I have a friend who is imprisoned in a neighboring country. Last year I visited him in the prison and noted that his health condition was not good. Is there a possibility of transferring him to a Tanzanian prison? PP, Dar There is a possibility of transferring a prisoner from a designated country to or […]
A government project is undergoing in our area and is now at a stage of compensating the persons whose houses are liable for demolition. Unfortunately I have three wives. Two young wives live in one house, designed as two-in-one whilst the first wife lives in a separate house and in a separate compound, which is […]
School boy charged with rape of school girl My son aged 15 years, a form two student, is charged with rape of a 14 year old girl who is also a form two student at the same school. My son does not deny having sexual relationship with the girl but pleads a defence that the […]
Legal Update – 12 April 2022
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