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Court of Appeal of Uganda

The Court of Appeal is the second highest court in the land.  It came into being following the promulgation of the 1995 Constitution, and the enactment of the Judicature Statute, 1996. Article 134 of the Constitution established the structure of the Court of Appeal.

While presiding over matters , it is duly constituted when it consists of an odd number of not less than three (3) justices of the Court of Appeal. It is this court that constitutes itself into a Constitutional Court in accordance with the Constitution to hear constitutional cases.

The Constitutional Court consists of fifteen (15) justices and handles the matters, issues or cases concerning the interpretation of the Constitution  When presiding over a constitutional matter, there must be a quorum of at least five (5) justices of the court.

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June 1986
Libyan Arab Uganda Bank For Foreign Trade & Development & Anor v Adam Vassiliadis (Civil Appeal No. 9 of 1985) [1986] UGCA 6 (12 June 1986)
Judge’s intervention causing counsel withdrawal led to unfair trial; appeal allowed and retrial ordered.
Civil procedure — Record of appeal (Rule 85) — counsel’s affidavit outside the record inadmissible; additional evidence requires Rule 29 application; Fair trial — judicial conduct and interventions — excessive or ill‑timed intervention causing counsel’s withdrawal and ex parte continuation can produce miscarriage of justice; Contracts — parties to sale — first appellant not proved to be party or to have authorised sale; Evidence — hearsay documents (extracts of letters, blank transfer form) lack probative value without maker’s testimony; Legal professional privilege — not established on the record where client/advocate testimony absent; Remedies — retrial de novo before different judge; constitutional referral — court may draw Attorney‑General/Chief Justice attention under Article 85(3).
 12 June 1986
Libyan Arab Uganda Bank for Foreign Trade & Development & Another v Vassiliads (Civil Appeal 9 of 1985) [1986] UGCA 23 (12 June 1986)

 

 12 June 1986
Management Training & Advisory Centre v Patrick Kakuku Ikanza (Civil Appeal No. 6 of 1985) [1986] UGCA 4 (12 June 1986)
Appellant failed to prove ownership or conversion of the welding machine; appeal dismissed for insufficient evidence.
Property law – conversion – need to prove ownership/possession on the balance of probabilities; evidentiary weight of correspondence; failure to produce contemporaneous records limits inferences; valuation — exchange rate evidence.
 12 June 1986