Board of Directors of st Josephs Namagunga v Mwanje (REVISION CAUSE NO. 017 OF 2015) [2018] UGHCCD 113 (10 May 2018)
Court
HC: Civil Division (Uganda)
Case number
REVISION CAUSE NO. 017 OF 2015
Judge
Luswata, J
The High Court found that its revisionary jurisdiction under Section 83 CPA is confined to correcting jurisdictional errors, illegalities, or material irregularities, not to reviewing factual or legal conclusions where jurisdiction is not in question. The record showed that the trial Magistrate acted within her jurisdiction in proceeding exparte after the applicant and their counsel failed to appear without valid reason. There was no evidence that the applicant was denied an opportunity to be heard or to adduce evidence, nor that a preliminary objection regarding the wrong party was raised an…