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Commercial Court of Uganda

The Commercial Court was established in 1996 as a division of the High Court of Uganda devoted to hearing and determining commercial disputes with current jurisdiction (as established under Legal Notice No.4 of 1996 and Instruction Circular No.1 of 1996); company causes, Bankruptcies and intellectual property.

The mission of the court is to deliver to the commercial community an efficient, expeditious and cost-effective mode of adjudicating disputes that affect directly and significantly the economic, commercial and financial life of Uganda.

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Plot 14, Lumumba Avenue, Nakasero.
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September 2002
Nassuna v Britania Products (U) Ltd (Miscellaneous Application 323 of 2002) [2002] UGCommC 28 (30 September 2002)
Application to release allegedly attached property dismissed because no subsisting attachment and claimant failed to prove loss.
Civil procedure – Attachment and sale – Whether property was under attachment – Order 19 rr 56–57 (release of property from attachment) – Evidence by affidavit and credibility – Auctioneer’s mandate and potential separate tortious liability (conversion).
 30 September 2002
R.R.P (U) Ltd v Assist (U) Ltd (Misc.Abitration Cause No. 4 of 2002) [2002] UGCommC 18 (25 September 2002)
Court set aside parts of an arbitral award for arbitrator's partiality and failure to award general damages, stayed enforcement pending security.
Arbitration — Setting aside award for evident partiality; Treatment of contractual 'extraordinary circumstances' versus force majeure; Duty of arbitrator to evaluate damages; Section 35 remedy; Stay of enforcement pending security deposit.
 25 September 2002
Hwan Sung Industries Ltd v Tajdin Hussien & 2 Ors (Civil Suit No. 276 of 2001) [2002] UGCommC 17 (24 September 2002)
Buyer entitled to reject unfit goods and recover deposit, damages and costs; supplier's counterclaim dismissed.
Sale of goods – fitness for purpose – right to reject unfit goods – buyer entitled to refund of deposit Evidence – credibility of quality-control and UNBS analysis – supplier's counterclaim dismissed for lack of evidence Remedies – refund, interest, costs of analysis, general damages and costs of suit
 24 September 2002