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Kaddu v Kaddu (Civil Application 375 of 2024) [2025] UGCA 63 (26 February 2025)
The Court of Appeal dismissed an application for stay of execution, finding delay, no shown likelihood of success, and no basis for irreparable harm.
Nakku v Nagawonye (Revision Cause 6 of 2024) [2025] UGHCFD 6 (17 February 2025)
The High Court dismissed a revision challenge to refusal of execution in a divorce property dispute, holding the magistrate acted lawfully and within jurisdiction.
Baryomunsi v Jemba & Another (Miscellaneous Application 2644 of 2024) [2025] UGHCLD 23 (28 January 2025)
The High Court granted a stay of execution pending review, finding an imminent eviction threat against a non-party registered proprietor and risk of rendering the review nugatory.
Zam Zam Zahara v Mwima and Another (Civil Suit 5 of 2016) [2024] UGHC 902 (30 September 2024)
The court held that the substitution of Mr. Mwaima Faisal as the 1st Defendant was improper because he was not the legal representative of the late James Muleme. The intention of substitution under Order 24 rule 4 is to allow the legal representative of a deceased party to enforce the rights of the deceased, not to introduce new third party rights. The amendment sought by Mr. Mwaima Faisal would cause injustice to the Plaintiff and the 2nd Defendant by introducing facts and interests not present in the original suit. Therefore, the amended written statement of defence was rejected, and Mr. Mw…
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Kyezira v Best Bargaining Financial Services Limited & Another (Miscellaneous Application 1304 of 2022) [2024] UGCommC 269 (19 February 2024)
The court found that the process leading to the issuance of the warrant of attachment and sale of the suit land was tainted with illegalities. Specifically, the duplicate certificate of title was not deposited in court prior to attachment as required by Section 48 of the Civil Procedure Act and Order 22 Rule 51 of the Civil Procedure Rules. Furthermore, at the time the warrant of attachment was issued, the property was not registered in the name of the judgment debtor but in the name of a third party, Tumwesigye Innocent. The subsequent registration of the 2nd respondent as proprietor after t…
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Noudehouenou v Burkina Faso (Application No. 010/2021) [2023] AfCHPR 5 (30 March 2023)
The Court found that Reckya Madougou had issued a mandate ad litem to the main applicant, Houngue Éric Noudehouenou, who was already defending her interests in the principal proceedings. The rights alleged by the Requestor in her intervention request were the same as those raised in the main application. The entitlement to intervene is reserved for persons whose interests are not represented in the main case. Since Madougou's interests were already being defended, she could not simultaneously intervene as a third party. The Court therefore deemed it unnecessary to examine the requirements for…
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Yukio Investment Company Limited v Administrator General and Another (Civil Suit No. 271 of 2018) [2023] UGHCCD 16 (23 January 2023)
The High Court dismissed a land suit after finding the plaintiff’s unregistered 99-year lease was not enforceable against the defendants and disclosed no cause of action.
African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights v Republic of Kenya (Application No. 006/2012) [2019] AfCHPR 22 (4 July 2019)
The African Court held that two intervention applications by private individuals were inadmissible because the Protocol allows intervention only by States, and the filing was late.
ZTE Corporation v Uganda Telecom (HCCS 169 of 2013) [2015] UGCommC 80 (8 May 2015)
The court stayed a preliminary objection on locus standi and privity, finding factual disputes about the plaintiff’s identity and the agreements that required evidence.
