Mujurizi James v Byakatonda John and Muyingo Robert
Mujurizi James v Byakatonda John and Muyingo Robert (Miscellaneous Application 137 of 2025) [2025] UGHC 469 (26 June 2025)
The court found that the applicant's proposed amendments sought to introduce prayers that had already been litigated and dismissed, with an appeal pending in the Court of Appeal. Entertaining the same issues in the present application would amount to forum shopping and was improper. The applicant failed to provide credible evidence that the plaintiff died before judgment, and the respondent's evidence was accepted. The court held that consequential orders for cancellation of title could not be granted in the absence of a judgment in the applicant's favour, and some of the properties were now…
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- Amendment Of Pleadings
- Ex Parte Judgment
- Consequential Orders
- Letters Of Administration
- Cancellation Of Title
- Substitution Of Parties