On 4th July, 201 the Court rejected the applicants’ application for review. The Court ordered the record of the High Court to be remitted to the trial court with directions that the judgment written by a predecessor Judge be pronounced by a successor judge or other judicial officer of competent jurisdiction. Initially, the successor Judge of the High Court of Tanzania (Commercial Division), had delivered a ruling in which he ruled that he was entitled to decline to pronounce a judgment prepared by his predecessor. Aggrieved, the Respondents immediately wrote to the Chief Justice complaining of what they thought to be un-procedural and or strange situation. Responding to their letter, the Honourable Chief Justice ordered revision proceedings to be instituted under section 4 (3) of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act [Cap 141 R.E. 2002]. Consequently, Civil Revision No. 5 of 2011 was instituted and after the hearing of the same, the Court gave decision in which it quashed and set aside the proceedings and the ruling by successor judge and ordered the record to be remitted to the High Court (Commercial Division) with directions that the judgment prepared by predecessor Judge be pronounced by a successor judge or other judicial officer of competent jurisdiction. Upon the delivery of the decision, the applicants, instantly, lodged a notice of motion under rule 66 (1) (a) and (c) of the Court of Appeal Rules, 2009 asking the Court to review its decision.

