Saku & Anor v Commissioner Land Registration & Anor (Misc. Cause No. 040 of 2014)
Saku & Anor v Commissioner Land Registration & Anor (Misc. Cause No. 040 of 2014) [2014] UGHCLD 112 (14 July 2014)
The court held that the applicants were not entitled to seek judicial review because an alternative remedy of appeal was available to them under Section 91(10) of the Land Act. The Commissioner Land Registration's decision to cancel the applicants' title was made while exercising powers under the Land Act, and any challenge to that decision should have been by way of appeal as specifically provided by statute. The court found that Section 165 of the Registration of Titles Act is merely procedural and does not itself confer a right of appeal, but the substantive action taken by the Commissione…
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- Judicial Review
- Exhaustion Of Alternative Remedies
- Land Title Cancellation
- Commissioner Land Registration