Basile Difasi & 3 Ors v The National Unity Platform & 8 Ors (MISCELLENOUS CAUSE No. 226 OF 2020)
Basile Difasi & 3 Ors v The National Unity Platform & 8 Ors (MISCELLENOUS CAUSE No. 226 OF 2020) [2020] UGHCCD 204 (21 October 2020)
The court held that the application was incompetent and improperly before it because the applicants sought judicial review remedies but failed to follow the prescribed procedure under the Judicature (Judicial Review) Rules. Specifically, the application was filed well outside the three-month limitation period for judicial review without any justification for the delay. The court emphasized that inherent powers cannot be invoked where there is a specific statutory procedure, and that allowing litigants to circumvent established procedures would undermine the rule of law and finality in litigat…
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