The Respondent, Michael Samwel Kyande, was once an employee of the Applicant before he requested for a voluntary retirement. This request to retire was duly granted by the Applicant. The Respondent was subsequently paid his attendant voluntary retirement package. Despite receiving his retirement package, the Respondent filed a civil case at the Resident Magistrate’s Court of Dar es Salaam at Kisutu. The Applicant is contending that although it is the Industrial Court of Tanzania which had jurisdiction over the trade dispute, the Resident Magistrate’s Court assumed that jurisdiction, conducted ex-parte hearing and delivered a judgment. The Applicant’s attempt to set aside the ex-parte judgment failed because on 18th December 2008, the trial Resident Magistrate’s Court dismissed this Applicant’s request to set aside the ex-parte order. On 22nd September 2009, the aggrieved Applicant came to this Court and filed this chamber application to ask for a) extension of time within which to file this application, b) examination and revision of the order of the Resident Magistrate’s Court on the ground that it lacked jurisdiction to entertain the matter that the Respondent had brought before the trial court; and c) a ruling that the Resident Magistrate’s Court wrongly presided over and determined a case basing on facts which originated in trade dispute between the Applicant and the Respondent. The Court questioned the propriety of joining different prayers in one application.

