The government of Tanzania is
looking at a possibility of reaching out-of-court settlements in some of the
cases facing the country in international courts as it seeks to minimize cost
of running the lawsuits.
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| Tanzania parliament |
The Attorney General, Adelardus Kilangi, told the Parliament on Tuesday,
June 18, 2019 that the government was doing everything possible to avoid
lawsuits in the preparation of contracts with investors, contractors and suppliers.
“As for cases in
international courts, the focus is on ensuring that we reach out-of-court
agreements to save on costs associated with the running of the lawsuits,” said Kilangi.
He was responding to an
auxiliary question by an opposition Member of Parliament, Saed Kubenea, who
wanted to know steps that the government was taking to pay contractors in cases
where the former is sued for terminating contracts.
In his main question, Kubenea
wanted the government to explain why certain public institutions were still
utilizing services of private practice lawyers despite the 2018 amendments to
the law governing the AG’s Office under which all lawyers in the public service
were placed under the AG’s Office.
Responding to the question, Kilangi said by the
amendments were effected, some public institutions had already signed
agreements with private practice lawyers, hence the need to compete them.
The Legal and Constitutional Affairs Minister, Augustine
Mahiga, said the creation of the office of the Solicitor General has seen the
government saving 9 billion shillings (US$ 3,916,449) that would otherwise be
spent on paying private practice lawyers.
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