In this week’s column:
Court Reaffirms Business Names Lack Legal Personality
- Delayed determination of waiver request constitutes an appealable omission
- Substantive right of appeal in respect of omissions cemented
- Jurisdiction of TRAB cannot be ousted by precedents or Courts of law
- TRAB’s jurisdiction provisions extensively analysed
- TRA held not to enjoy unfettered power on statutory timelines
- Previous decisions barring appeals on omissions distinguished
- Statutory timelines, accountability, and procedural fairness reinforced
- Concurrent decisions of the Board and Tribunal reversed
In this week’s Legal Quest
poll results:
- Can a marriage be legally annulled if one of the parties was incapable of consummating it from the outset?
YES – 91% | NO – 9% - Is it allowed to run a funding campaign to support someone in need?
YES – 60% | NO – 40% - Can a person be charged with a crime for sharing someone else’s private information online?
YES – 96% | NO – 4%
Residence identity card
Did you know that having a residence identity card issued by NIDA is a mandatory requirement for non-citizens who reside in Tanzania for more than six months.


