Ssebuma v Uganda
Ssebuma v Uganda (Criminal Appeal No. 0617 of 2014) [2019] UGCA 2039 (9 December 2019)
The Court of Appeal found that the appellant was below 18 years of age at the time of the commission of the offence and was therefore a child under Ugandan law. The trial judge failed to properly ascertain the appellant's age and did not remit the case to the Family and Children Court for sentencing, as required by Section 94 of the Children Act. The sentence of 15 years imprisonment was illegal, as the maximum permissible sentence for a child convicted of an offence punishable by death is three years' detention. The appellant had already served more than three years in prison, rendering furt…
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- Sentencing Of Children
- Jurisdiction Of High Court
- Remand Periods
- Illegal Sentences
- Children Act Application