JurisAssist Uganda Case Law
Uganda
Sign in
Uganda Source-linked decisions Coverage checked

Uganda Case Law

Search judgments by proposition, citation, court, judge or legal topic, then move directly into the source-grounded case analysis.

Courts on this page
1 court collection
Last checked

Search and filter Uganda case law

Results update automatically as you type.

Uganda decisions

Decisions matching the current search

Clear filters
Criminal Law [1936] EACA 46

Rex v Kongo (Cr. App. No. 52/1936.)

Rex v Kongo (Cr. App. No. 52/1936.) [1936] EACA 46 (1 January 1936)

Court
East African Court of Appeal
Case number
Cr. App. No. 52/1936.
Judge
Abrahamas, C.J. (Tanganyika), Gamble, J. (Uganda), Sheridan CJ

The Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa held that a trial judge, not a medical certificate alone, must decide whether an accused has regained sanity and can stand trial.

  • Insanity Defence
  • Criminal Procedure
  • Fitness To Plead
  • Insanity-defence
  • Fitness-to-plead
  • Criminal-procedure
Read case analysis
Criminal Law [1931] EACA 14

Rex v Puja (Cr. App. 13/1931.)

Rex v Puja (Cr. App. 13/1931.) [1931] EACA 14 (1 January 1931)

Court
East African Court of Appeal
Case number
Cr. App. 13/1931.
Judge
Barth CJ, Griffin C.J. (Uganda),, Pickering, C.J. (Zanzibar)

The Court held that, under section 157 of the Tanganyika Criminal Procedure Code, the judge may inquire into an accused’s fitness to plead without assessors.

  • Fitness To Plead
  • Lunacy In Criminal Trials
  • Role Of Assessors
  • Criminal Procedure Code Interpretation
  • Fitness-to-plead
  • Criminal-procedure
Read case analysis

About this JurisAssist collection

Uganda decisions are organised by court, judge, legal area and indexed issue so a practitioner can move from a proposition to a citable authority with the surrounding context intact.

Source links and collection timestamps are retained alongside the indexed records.