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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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Twed Towers along Kafu Road, Nakasero,Kampala.
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Judgment date
June 2010
The appellant’s intoxication and provocation defences failed; murder conviction and death sentence affirmed.
* Criminal law – murder – defences – intoxication: mere opinion of drunkenness insufficient; must show lack of knowledge of act or of wrongfulness (Penal Code s.12). * Criminal law – murder – provocation: objective ordinary‑person test; trivial insults do not afford defence (Penal Code s.193). * Sentencing – mitigation – brutal, unprovoked killing of elderly victim: death sentence affirmed.
28 June 2010
Conviction quashed where circumstantial evidence was insufficient and the appellant’s alibi was not disproved.
Criminal law – Circumstantial evidence – standard requiring inculpatory facts incompatible with innocence – alibi – failure to disprove alibi – hearsay evidence inadmissible where dependent on absent third party – trial judge’s evaluation of defence witness.
28 June 2010
Criminal law
23 June 2010
Evidence Law|Witness Testimony
23 June 2010
Criminal law|Evidence Law
16 June 2010
Criminal law
10 June 2010
Civil Procedure|Criminal law
6 June 2010
Criminal law
2 June 2010
Criminal law
1 June 2010