A Compulsory Research Report Submitted to Mzumbe University – Mbeya Campus in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Bachelor Degree of Laws (LL.B) of Mzumbe University
The concept of cyber-crime undergoes various digestions by different Authors and writers in their works, though they did not agree mutually, but in attempt to define cyber-crime someone should not write in isolation terms like computer and crime which collectively constitute an offence to be referred as cyber-crime. Purposely the aim of undergo this study was to make critical assessment on provision of section 30 of the cybercrime act No.14 of 2015 where the researcher has been divided his study in five chapters. Each chapter has solely contribution toward addressing the issue of cyber-crime law.
The study was conducted to assess on the adequacy and inadequacy of the provision of section 30 of the cyber-crime Act which gives power to the courts of competent jurisdiction (the court of Resident Magistrate and the District court) on entertain cyber-crimes offences. Where researcher found the gap on this provision when he considers the circumstance at hand like the technological reach of the country Tanzania. The study surveyed various findings which researches think they can contribute to fill the gap of the research.
The study invites various pieces of legislation which found to have a legal backup on cybercrime laws, after the analysis of the obtained information from magistrates, advocates and other relevant institutions like TCR, researcher presents his findings which answers hypotheses rises upon the topic, finally researcher gives his recommendation on the strategies that can be employed to address challenges deployed from the study.