Bank loses case against former employee
STANBIC Bank Tanzania Limited has lost a bid to challenge payments of over 200m/- as compensation to their former Chief Legal Counsel Solomoni Sioi for allegedly wrongful termination of his employment serves. This follows the decision of the Court of Appeal to “strikeout” with costs an application for stay of execution of a decree of the High Court’s Labour Division at Dar es Salaam regarding the employment dispute. Justices Mbarouk Mbarouk, Augustine Mwarija and Sivangilwa Mwangesi ruled in favour of Sioi, the respondent, after upholding a ground of objection he had presented through his advocate Godwin Nyaisa. They ruled that the application in question was hopelessly time barred as was filed in contravention of the Rule 11 (4) of the Court of Appeal Rules, as amended by Government Notice No. 362 of 2017. As per the Rule, according to the justices, the Bank, as applicant, ought to have filed the application within 14 days of service of the notice of execution on the appellant by