In their appeal to the court, Vantage contended that the deputy registrar erred in law and fact when on October 17 2024 taxed the bill of costs and allowed it only UGX 104million and 90million in instruction fees to lawyers. Vantage argued that that sum was manifestly low, unfair, and inconsistent with the Advocates Remuneration and Taxation of Costs Regulations.
In his ruling, High Court judge Stephen Mubiru said the finance company had satisfied all the conditions to allow for the recognition and enforcement of an arbitration order given in Kenya against KIU, which is owned by businessman Hassan Basajjabalaba.
In her ruling, Judge Patricia Kahigi Asiimwe agreed with the request to remove Ronald Kanyerezi Mark Oliver as a shareholder of Bemuga Forwarders but declined to transfer his shares to Mugasha.
Adong who was suing through her Attorney Gunter Piber, said the decision by UETCL to pass high voltage power lines through her 2.023 hectares of land violated article 26 of the constitution which states that before the government can compulsorily acquire private property, it must first adequately compensate its owners.
Team Uniform wanted the court to force Makerere University to pay them UGX 670 million as the balance owing on unpaid graduation gowns. The company also wanted the court to force the University to pay UGX 1.224 billion in compensation for the loss it made when the university failed to guarantee that it would be the sole supplier of gowns during the university’s 67th and 68th graduations.
In an application for review of the 2023 high court decision, four of Kiwanuka’s sisters; Jalia Muwanga, Nantege Yudaya Nsereko, Berti Nsereko Kawooya, and Sarah Nsereko sought access to him claiming he was insane. They claimed that for over six years, they had been denied access by Kiwanuka’s second wife and former Finance Minister, Maria Kiwanuka.
Kyagulanyi said the only reason why Besigye was brought to court today was because of the pressure people in Uganda and across the world have exerted on the government.
In her ruling, Justice Patricia Mutesi of the High Court found that Standard Chartered Bank errored when it cancelled a mortgage facility it had already granted to a couple; Peter Victor Kwagala and Priscilla Mbabazi.
The court's order comes as part of ongoing proceedings to assess Kiwanuka's ability to run his business ventures effectively. A section of Kiwanuka’s family claims that he is mentally incapable of making his own decisions.
The reforms arise from a long awaited judgement in the unsuccessful appeal filed by the Attorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka seeking to maintain the trial of civilians in the court martial.
Chief Justice Alfonse Owinyi-Dollo held that Court Martial judges do not have any requirement of having legal training and equated it to sending a person to the theatre to operate a patient when that person doesn't have the requisite qualifications to do an operation.
In their ruling, the three justices point out the way the judges of the military courts are appointed, their lack of legal background and the security of their tenure as not enough to guarantee independence.
The opposition believes that President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni continues to use military courts only to suppress his political opponents. Three times now, the Constitutional Court has ruled that military courts were not created to try civilians but rather to serve members of the UPDF.
According to the record, Kasasira got a job with Yalelo in June 2020 and was dismissed in May 2022 on the grounds of underperformance and gross misconduct among others.
Ahimbisibwe Kateregga had been arrested for using a panga to cut off the head of his wife. However, after six years on remand, he agreed to plead guilty to murder and a pre-bargain agreement was entered with the Director of Public Prosecutions in 2015.
In a unanimous decision by Justice Oscar John Kihika, the court observed that the provisions contradict the very essence and spirit in which the 1995 constitution framers required public officials to declare their wealth.
“In our view, the body of the UPDF Act specifically set out the army courts as a parallel judicial framework distinct and juxtaposed against the courts of judicature. It appears to have been contemplated that the UPDF courts were better placed to address discipline issues within the rank and file of the armed soldiers and better able to handle penal sanctions that, hopefully, deter further offending.
The Principal Judge Dr Flavian Zeija nullified a pre-bargain agreement between the Directorate of Public Prosecution-DPP and Ongoriya Moses a security guard attached to Saracen security company.
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