c00631 B. Alleged violations 9. The Applicant alleges the following violations i) The Courts subordinate to this Honourable Court erred in law by awarding a trivial amount of damages which is contrary to the laws of the Land of Tanzania... ii) The Courts subordinate to this Honourable Court denied my right by deciding that the Applicant was not defamed...; iii) The Applicant has not been paid costs incurred in prosecuting the case despite being awarded costs by the High Court...; iv) The Applicant was confined in Tabora in the RCO's office for the period of I hours on 30th April, 1997, without justification; v) ...the case before the High Court took 9 years while only three witnesses testified on either side...; vi) That the Court of Appeal erred in law in not making an assessment [of damages but ratherl...remitted the file to the High Court for such assessment... " III. SUMMARY OF THE PROCEDURE BEFORE THE COURT 10.The Application was filed at the Registry on 23 November 2015 and supplemented by the submissions filed on 12 April 2016 at the request of the Court. These were served on the Respondent State on g June 2016. 11. On 24 May 2017 , the Registry received the Respondent State's Response and this was transmitted to the Applicant on the same day. The Applicant submitted his Reply to the Respondent State's Response on 5 December 2017 4