Busingye & Another v Matovu
Busingye & Another v Matovu (Miscellaneous Cause 50 of 2023) [2024] UGCommC 115 (19 April 2024)
The court found that the applicants were instructed by Geresome Tabula Matovu to perform legal services, but the documents evidencing the instructions did not comply with the Illiterates Protection Act, rendering them void. However, the court held that where a benefit was derived, compensation is still due under Section 54(1) of the Contracts Act. The court was not satisfied that GTM was permanently incapable of contracting at the material time, as evidence suggested lucid intervals and the respondents themselves relied on documents executed by GTM after his diagnosis. The absence of a writte…
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- Advocate Client Costs
- Taxation Of Costs
- Capacity To Contract
- Illiterates Protection
- Personal Representatives Liability