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Mabirizi v Attorney General
Mabirizi v Attorney General (Miscellaneous Application 7 of 2018) [2018] UGSC 55 (14 December 2018)
The Supreme Court found that the affidavits filed by the applicant were prolix, argumentative, and non-compliant with Order 19 Rule 3 of the Civil Procedure Rules, which requires affidavits to be confined to facts within the deponent's knowledge and not to contain arguments or conjecture. The Court also held that while an undated affidavit is a curable defect, the applicant suffered no prejudice from the respondent's substitution of a dated affidavit. Furthermore, the Court determined that the application to summon the Speaker of Parliament was pre-emptive of issues already framed for determi…
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- Affidavit Procedure
- Additional Evidence
- Court Process Abuse
- Parliamentary Immunity