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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.
The Supreme Court held that the Court of Appeal failed in its duty, as a first appellate court, to properly re-appraise the evidence, as required of it under the Court of Appeal Rules.
The applicant sought an order for security for costs against the respondent who had defaulted on loans from the Uganda Development Bank (UDB) and the Development Finance Company of Uganda (DFCU), leading to the appointment of receivers.
