HC: Anti corruption Division (Uganda)

 The Anti-corruption Division of the High court  was established in July 2008 by the Judiciary as a specialized Division to adjudicate corruption and corruption related cases. The Division commenced hearing cases in December 2008. 

The Establishment of the ACD was a deliberate step by the Judiciary, in response to demands by Government and other institutions engaged in fighting corruption, to take drastic action against the corrupt by strengthening the adjudicatory mechanism for fighting corruption.

The Principal Judge administratively set up the ACD, as a specialized Division of the High Court to adjudicate corruption cases. The Chief Justice would like to formally establish the ACD through a Practice Direction.

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Plot 8 Mabua Road, Kololo, Kampala- Uganda.
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November 2018
30 November 2018
16 November 2018
16 November 2018
Acquittal upheld where prosecution failed to prove hospital ownership and forgery/uttering was not established.
* Criminal law – Embezzlement – requirement to prove employer ownership of property – evidence and identification of assets. * Criminal law – Forgery and uttering – probative value of handwriting expert evidence and need to prove uttering by testimony of alleged recipient. * Evidence – Failure to call key witnesses and institutional asset-management weaknesses undermine prosecution proof. * Precedent – Conviction despite expert exoneration depends on factual matrix; earlier decisions are distinguishable.
1 November 2018