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October 2025
Alliance for Finance Monitoring and Others v Attorney General and Another (Constitutional Petition No. 4 of 2024) [2025] UGCC 19 (27 October 2025)
City women MPs and municipal constituencies are constitutionally valid; petition dismissed and each party to bear its own costs.
  • Constitutional law — Parliamentary Elections Act s.8(1) — cities treated as equivalent to districts — one woman representative per district applies to cities; local government — municipalities as constituencies — Parliament prescribes constituencies, Electoral Commission demarcates; Article 63(5) review triggered by census publication; city women MPs are not special interest group representatives.
27 October 2025
Mugisha Johnson v Attorney General and Another (Constitutional Petition No. 78 of 2023) [2025] UGCC 21 (27 October 2025)
Challenge to laws for failing to define "expiry" rejected; term has plain meaning and petition dismissed.
  • Constitutional jurisdiction — Article 137 — interpretation of the Constitution; Criminal law — vagueness — Article 28(12) — definition of "expiry"; Statutory construction — plain and ordinary meaning; Administrative/factual defenses — matters for trial court.
27 October 2025
Muhwezi Abias v Attorney General and Others (Constitutional Petition No. 83 of 2023) [2025] UGCC 20 (27 October 2025)
Court allowed consolidation of two constitutional petitions alleging fair-trial breaches by revenue authority prosecutions.
  • Constitutional procedure — consolidation of petitions under Rule 13 where petitions concern same matter; alleged fair trial breaches in prosecutions involving revenue authority employees; challenges to statutory provisions as inconsistent with constitutional fair trial rights.
27 October 2025
Kuuku Amos and Others v Attorney General (Constitutional Petition No. 3 of 2024) [2025] UGCC 18 (13 October 2025)
Whether statutory cash-bail provisions unlawfully discriminate against indigent accused and violate constitutional rights.
  • Constitutional law — Bail — Validity of cash-bail provisions under Section 78(b) Magistrates Courts Act and Bail Guidelines (2022) — Presumption of constitutionality and judicial discretion to impose reasonable conditions. Human rights — Right to liberty, equality and fair hearing — Whether cash bail discriminates against indigent accused and prolongs remand
  • Remedies — Review of bail terms by supervisory courts; refund of cash bail at case conclusion; compensation not appropriate in this constitutional petition
13 October 2025
Bonafacio Mulugga and Others v Attorney General (Constitutional Petition No. 17 of 2015) [2025] UGCC 17 (10 October 2025)
10 October 2025
Shamil Atabua Letia v Attorney General (Constitutional Petition No. 0022 of 2021) [2025] UGCC 22 (7 October 2025)
Challenge to amendment limiting MPs' recall to the Movement system dismissed; limitation found constitutional and not discriminatory.
  • Constitutional law — Constitutional amendment — Power of Parliament to amend Constitution — Article 84(7) (recall of MPs) introduced by 2005 amendment — Movement vs Multi-Party systems; Equality and non‑discrimination — limitation justified and not unfairly discriminatory; Res judicata — prior cases did not decide Article 84(7) constitutionality.
7 October 2025
Hon. Allan Ssewanyana Aloysius and Another v Attorney General of Uganda (Constitutional Petition No. 4 of 2023) [2025] UGCC 15 (3 October 2025)
Petition challenging re‑arrest, splitting of charges, prolonged remand and partial disclosure dismissed as questions already decided; no fresh interpretation required.
  • Constitutional law — Article 137 jurisdiction — interpretation v enforcement; res judicata in constitutional interpretation; criminal procedure — pre‑trial disclosure and witness protection (Rules 19, 22, 36 ICD Rules); splitting charges/parallel prosecutions; re‑arrest by military personnel after bail; prolonged remand without trial.
3 October 2025