The law prohibits the District Land and Housing Tribunal from hearing any proceedings affecting title to or any interest in land unless the Ward Tribunal has certified that it has failed to settle the matter amicably.
Where the ward tribunal fails to settle a land dispute within thirty days from the date the matter was instituted, the aggrieved party may proceed to institute the land dispute without the certificate from the Ward Tribunal.
All disputes, irrespective of the value of the property in contention has to, at first instance, go through mediation by the Ward Tribunal.
The Ward Tribunal has powers to mediate land disputes and where it fails, issue a certificate that it has failed to settle the matter amicably, the Ward Tribunal has no powers to make any other orders, other than those agreed during mediation, with regards to the dispute.