Omary and Others v United Republic of Tanzania (Application 001/2012)
Omary and Others v United Republic of Tanzania (Application 001/2012) [2016] AfCHPR 35 (3 June 2016)
The Court found that the documents submitted by the Applicants as new evidence—including correspondence with the Chief Justice, newspaper articles, reports from the Tanzania Legal and Human Rights Centre, and other annexures—were either already presented and considered in the initial proceedings or were publicly available prior to the original judgment. The only document produced for the first time, a newspaper article dated 16 March 2011, was deemed not to have any bearing on the exhaustion of local remedies or undue prolongation, as it did not demonstrate that remedies were exercised or att…
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- Exhaustion Of Local Remedies
- Right To Fair Trial
- Pension Entitlements
- Undue Delay
- Admissibility Of Review
- New Evidence Standard