Bwire v Uganda Printing and Publishing Corporation
Bwire v Uganda Printing and Publishing Corporation (Miscellaneous Cause 148 of 2022) [2023] UGHCCD 275 (22 September 2023)
The court held that the applicant's grievance arose from a private contractual relationship between the applicant and the respondent, making it an issue of private law governed by the Employment Act 2006, not administrative law. The position of Senior Procurement Officer was not created by statute but by the board of the respondent, and the process of appointment and dismissal was governed by the Human Resource Manual, not by statute or the Constitution. The court emphasized that judicial review is only available for breaches of public law and not for private law disputes. The applicant shoul…
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- Judicial Review
- Amenability Of Employment Disputes
- Public Vs Private Law
- Procedural Irregularity
- Exhaustion Of Statutory Remedies