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The commercial division of the High Court of Uganda has ordered Equity Bank (U) Ltd to pay a school UGX 233,748,000/= in special and
On 7th August, 2026, the Supreme Court of Uganda presided over by Justice Monica K Mugenyi, Justice Catherine Bamugemereire, Justice Stephen Musota, Justice Elizabeth
The Court held that Claims brought outside the prescribed limitation period are not maintainable unless specific exceptions, such as fraud or mistake, are pleaded and proved.
The court held that the right to one’s image (likeness,name, voice, etc) is an unnegotiable personal right protected under the right to privacy enshrined in the Constitution’s Article 27
The respondents challenged the constitutionality of the provision after their land was compulsorily acquired by UNRA without prompt prior compensation.
An unstamped instrument cannot form the basis of legal claims beyond the parties to that instrument.
The Supreme Court made a significant determination regarding the deduction of the remand period from the sentence. The court departed from its previous decisions.
Death is excusable when caused in self-defence.
The Supreme Court’s role is not to re-evaluate the evidence against facts of the case as thoroughly as the first appellate court but to ensure that the law has been correctly applied by the first appellate court and that there has been no miscarriage of justice.
The High Court dismissed the appellant’s argument that the trial magistrate relied on extraneous evidence in sentencing.
