The second Respondent instructed the Appellant to represent
him in a claim against the Attorney General and the Inspector General of
Police, for loss suffered as a result of his motor vehicle having been impounded
by the Traffic Police in Dodoma, and which had been returned to him in a
dilapidated state, such that it was only worth scrap. Later, the second
Respondent discovered that the Appellant had been suspended from practicing and
was advised to withdraw his suit for lack of notice of intention to sue. When
the Second Respondent informed the Appellant of his case’s dismissal, the
Appellant told him that the advocate who advised him must have taken a bribe
from the other side. The Appellant was convicted and sentenced by the Advocates
Committee in respect of a complaint for misconduct by the second Respondent.
The Committee convicted the Appellant under section 13(1) (c), 13 (2) and 13
(4) of the Advocates Act and went on to grant the Complainant’s prayer of refund
of Tshs. 25,000,000/= which he was claiming from the Attorney General and the
Inspector General of Police in the case that was dismissed. On appeal against
the Advocates’ Committee’s decision the Appellant raised several procedural and
other grounds.