A Research Report Submitted to Mzumbe University – Mbeya Campus College the Faculty of Law in fulfilment of the Requirement for Award of the Degree of Bachelor of Law (LL.B) of Mzumbe University
This study is set out to discuss the failure of Electronic Transaction Act No 13 of 2015 to show tendering of electronic evidence in the court. The study has tried to cover the whole of Tanzania but mostly on Section 18 of the Act which deals with electronic evidence, which deals with admissibility of data messages. The Act permit the admissibility of electronic evidence to be used as a form of evidence in the Tanzania courts but at the same time the act did not indicate as to how such acceptable electronic evidence can be tendered in the court of law. Furthermore, the study assessed various laws which deals with the electronic evidence either the whole law or only part of the law. The study came up with various pushing factors towards this problem as it has been explained in chapters of this research.