Gash Logistics Limited v Uganda Co-operative Transport Union Ltd (Miscellaneous Application No. 0419 of 2020) [2025] UGCommC 116 (15 January 2025)

THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA

IN THE HIGH COURT OF UGANDA SITTING AT KAMPALA

(COMMERCIAL DIVISION)

MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATION No. 0419 OF 2020

5 (Arising from Civil Suit No. 0362 of 2020)

GASH LOGISTICS LIMITED …………………………………………… APPLICANT

VERSUS

UGANDA CO-OPERATIVE TRANSPORT UNION LTD ………… RESPONDENT

10 Before: Hon Justice Stephen Mubiru.

PROCEEDINGS

15th January, 2025. 3.46 pm Attendance

15 Mr. Busuulwa Cypress Bill, Court Clerk. None of the parties or their Counsel is in Court

ORDER

- 20 The applicant has not taken any further step in prosecuting the application yet public policy demands that the business of the courts should be conducted with expedition. In the instant case, there is prima facie dilatory conduct on the part of the advocates or inexcusable delay on the part of the applicant or both. There has been both culpable and flagrant inactivity on the part of the applicant in respect of this claim. It is of the greatest importance in the interest of justice that 25 applications should be brought to trial with reasonable dispatch. The applicant should not derive any advantage from the fact that the respondent has not sought to have the application dismissed. One of the purposes of Section 17 (2) of *The Judicature Act* is to provide the court with administrative machinery to disencumber itself of case files in which the parties appear to have lost interest. On the face of it, the applicant appears to have lost interest in this application. The - 30 application is accordingly dismissed for want of prosecution under the above mentioned provision.

………………………………….. Stephen Mubiru Judge 15th 35 January, 2025.

3:47 pm.