THE Judiciary has established
special codes for appeals and application cases at the Court of Appeal
for easy identification ahead of e-filling of cases to be introduced in
the near future, the Court of Appeal Registrar John Kahyoza, has said.
He told the ‘Daily News’ in Dar es
Salaam over the weekend in an exclusive interview that the proposed
numbering format would do away with the problem of identifying cases
currently facing the Court of Appeal Registry, notably lack of serial
numbers for applications.
“It is also an important step towards
e-filing of cases. We cannot migrate to e-case management unless we
assign unique numbers to appeals and applications,” the Registrar of the
country’s Supreme Court said, insisting that no case would be admitted
without being assigned such special codes. He pointed out that the
establishment of such special codes follows the directive of Chief
Justice in terms of Rule 19 of the Court of Appeal Rules, 2009 and
numbering of applications filed at the Court of Appeal would take the
format of 001/01/2017.
According to the Registrar, number 001,
which would change depending on the increase of cases filed, would
represent the serial case number, while number 01, which would not
change represents the code identifying a registry of the Court where the
case originates and 2017 is the year of filing the appeal.
The Registrar disclosed that the special
code for Dar es Salaam Registry would be 01m while that of Arusha would
be 02, Dodoma Registry would be 03, while Bukoba Registry would be 04
and Moshi Registry would be 05.
Other registries with special codes in
brackets would be Mbeya (06), Mtwara (07), Mwanza (08), Sumbawanga (09),
Songea (10), Tabora (11), Tanga (12), Iringa (13), Shinyanga (14) and
Zanzibar Registry (15).Mr Kahyoza pointed out further that cases
originating from the Commercial Division of the High Court would have 16
as its code while the Land Division would bear 17 as its special code.
Appeals from the High Court’s Labour
Division would be assigned 18 as its special code. He pointed out that
appeal cases registered from the Corruption and Economic Crime Division
of the High Court would bear special number 19 while cases originating
from the Tax Revenue Appeals Tribunal would be registered with Code
Number 20.
The Registrar could not give details on
special codes that would be assigned to appeals originating from the
Fair Competition Tribunal and Court Martial cases.
As for the High Court, its Registrar, Mr
Ilvin Mgeta, said they were in the process of introducing a similar
system. He pointed out that they have started with the Court of Appeal
on a trial basis to see how it would work before integrating the new
system to other levels of the court - that is the High Court and other
lower courts.
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