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Attorney General Vs Walugembe
Attorney General Vs Walugembe (Civil Miscellenous Application/cause No. 390 of 2018) [2019] UGCA 37 (17 April 2019)
The Court of Appeal held that the orders of the High Court arising from judicial review proceedings were not capable of being executed and thus could not be stayed. The application for stay of execution was misconceived because the underlying consent judgment and decree in High Court Civil Suit No. 550 of 2016, which formed the basis for the payments in question, had not been set aside or stayed, and the applicant was not a party to that suit. The court reaffirmed that only the judiciary can stay or alter its own judgments, and executive orders cannot override or suspend court decisions. The…
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- Stay Of Execution
- Judicial Review
- Separation Of Powers
- Land Compensation
- Consent Judgment
- Independence Of Judiciary