Commissioner General TRA versus Rodgers Mhina and Another

Commissioner General TRA versus Rodgers Mhina and Another; Civil Application No 135 of 2014; Court of Appeal of Tanzania at Dar es Salam (Unreported).

• Civil procedure

• Affidavit – failure to disclose source of information – effect

Held:-

It is settled law that an affidavit for use in court being a substitute for oral evidence, should only contain statements of facts and circumstances to which the witness deposes either of his own person knowledge or from information which he believes to be true.