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Tatu v Uganda (Criminal Appeal 239 of 2016) [2024] UGCA 44 (21 February 2024)
The Court of Appeal held that a plea bargain cannot replace mandatory plea-taking steps. It quashed the conviction and sentence and remitted the case.
Jumba v Uganda (Criminal Appeal No. 94 of 2011) [2018] UGCA 57 (30 July 2018)
The Court of Appeal set aside Jumba Richard’s rape conviction after finding the trial was a nullity because the judge failed to sum up the case to assessors as required.
Kalidas v Queen (Criminal Appeal No. 2010 of 1953) [1954] EACA 163 (1 January 1954)
The prosecution was a nullity because it was instituted without the required formal report and application by the Official Receiver, as mandated by sections 144 and 148 of the Bankruptcy Ordinance. Furthermore, while section 17(8) of the Bankruptcy Ordinance allows the use of notes from a public examination as evidence against the bankrupt, this provision does not permit a conviction to be founded solely on such notes unless they are properly put in evidence by being read aloud in court and brought to the notice of the accused. In this case, the record was produced but not read out, and no ot…
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Kibungi and Another v Reginam (Criminal Appeal No. 198 of 1956) [1950] EACA 590 (1 January 1950)
The Court of Appeal held that defective charges and equivocal pleas of guilty made the convictions a nullity in a cattle-movement prosecution.
Rex v Kija and Others (Criminal Appeals Nos. 186, 187 and 188 of 1947) [1947] EACA 46 (1 January 1947)
The Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa held that a judge’s strong advice to unrepresented accused not to say anything rendered their murder trial a nullity.
