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Mwebaze v Basemera (HCT-01-FD-MC-0020-2024) [2025] UGHC 439 (30 May 2025)
The High Court dismissed an application over estate subdivision, holding it was brought by the wrong procedure and before mandatory arbitration between co-administrators.
Barugahare v Kenyi & Anor (HCT-01-CS-CA-067 OF 2016) [2017] UGHCLD 238 (31 October 2017)
The court held that while the failure to extract a formal decree before filing an appeal is a curable technicality and does not render the appeal incompetent, the substantive dispute between the appellant and respondents, being members of a cooperative society, falls squarely within the ambit of the Co-Operative Societies Act. The Act mandates that such disputes must first be referred to arbitration, and only after exhaustion of the internal mechanisms, including appeal to the board, can the matter be brought before the courts. The High Court emphasized that it cannot exercise original jurisd…
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Opwateta Growers Co Society Ltd & 7 Ors v North Bukeddi cooperative union Ltd (H.C.C.S. NO. 23 OF 1993) [1994] UGHCCD 2 (11 March 1994)
The suit was prematurely filed in the High Court without first complying with the mandatory arbitration procedure stipulated under section 72 of the Co-operative Societies Statute 1991. Both parties, being registered co-operative societies, are subject to this statutory requirement. The court held that it could only be properly moved if the statutory provisions regarding arbitration were adhered to. The distinction from the cited Kayondo case was noted, as the present statute differs in its procedural requirements. The objection regarding jurisdiction was rejected because the plaint indicated…
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Kayondo v The Co-operative Bank Limited (Civil Suit 890 of 1989) [1990] UGHC 44 (27 March 1990)
The High Court held that an employment dispute with a cooperative society over termination had first to go to the Registrar under section 73, so the suit was dismissed for want of jurisdiction.
