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Kisugu Quarries Limited v Administrator General (Civil Appeal 10 of 98) [1999] UGSC 28 (5 October 1999)
The Supreme Court held that a 1970 lease to a non-African company was void for lack of ministerial consent and that repossession under the Expropriated Properties Act could not validate it.
Kisugu Quarries Ltd v Administrator General (Civil Appeal No. 10 of 1998) [1999] UGSC 40 (5 January 1999)
The Supreme Court held that the lease executed in 1970 in favour of Kisugu Quarries Ltd, a non-African company, was null and void ab initio for lack of ministerial consent as required by Section 2 of the Land Transfer Act. The subsequent issuance of a repossession certificate under the Expropriated Properties Act did not and could not validate the void lease, as there was no legal interest to repossess. The appellant failed to discharge the burden of proof to show that ministerial consent had been obtained, and the evidence presented was speculative, contradictory, and insufficient. The court…
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