Mr. Justice Barnabas Samatta retired from the Bench in July 2007 after a distinguished legal career spanning 41 years. Of the four decades of active life, he was a State Attorney, half of which he was the Director of Public Prosecutions. For the rest of the period, he was at then bench of the High C...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Shivji, Issa G., Majamba, Hamudi
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, ©2011.
Schlagworte:	Samatta, Barnabas Albert. Samatta, Barnabas Albert Judges > Tanzania. Justice, Administration of > Tanzania. Law > Tanzania. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Lawyers & Judges. LAW > Civil Procedure. LAW > Legal Services. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch. Judges Justice, Administration of Law Tanzania Biography Biographies Biographies.
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Zusammenfassung:	Mr. Justice Barnabas Samatta retired from the Bench in July 2007 after a distinguished legal career spanning 41 years. Of the four decades of active life, he was a State Attorney, half of which he was the Director of Public Prosecutions. For the rest of the period, he was at then bench of the High Court of Tanzania and ten years in the Court of Appeal. At his retirement, he had spent seven years as Chief Justice of the country, thus at the helm of one of the three branches of the State. This book reproduces some of the leading judgements written by Justice Samatta. It highlights, in a critical fashion, some of his beliefs and observations as embedded in his decisions and speeches. This is to celebrate him as an example of an ethical lawyer whose integrity cannot be questioned, making him a worthy model for the younger generation to emulate and draw inspiration from. Justice Samatta's decisions touched on key areas of: Rule of Law and the Constitution, where he emphasised that the constitution crystallises a consensus among citizens as to the nature and character of their polity and governance; Access to Justice, about which he believed that the doors to justice should be opened to all regardless of their station in life or economic position; Ethics, Integrity and Professionalism where he frequently quoted Nyerere 'There are some jobs in our society that can be done by unethical people ... Being a judge or a magistrate is not one of these jobs ... '; and Environmental Law where he argued 'The vulnerability of our planet has reached such a depressing degree that there is no greater service judges can render to mankind than playing their role in the protection of the environment ... ' He summarised his life-long conviction by saying: 'Let everyone in our society give justice a chance to prevail'.
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9789987080618 9987080618 9789987080571 998708057X