American Express International Banking Corporation Vs Atulkumar Sumant Bhai Patel
American Express International Banking Corporation Vs Atulkumar Sumant Bhai Patel (Civil Application No. 8 of 1986) [1986] UGCA 11 (7 November 1986)
The application for leave to adduce additional evidence was refused because the applicant failed to demonstrate that the evidence sought was unavailable at the time of trial or could not have been obtained with reasonable diligence. The matters raised in the proposed affidavit by Dennis Singham were procedural and jurisdictional issues that were within the knowledge of the applicant and its counsel during the original proceedings. The absence of reciprocal enforcement between Uganda and Singapore and the lack of known assets in Singapore were not new facts. The applicant did not show due dili…
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- Additional Evidence On Appeal
- Diligence In Evidence Production
- Forum Conveniens
- Enforcement Of Foreign Judgments