HC: Criminal Division (Uganda)

The Criminal Division is Responsible for hearing all serious criminal offences referred to it by the Magistrates' Courts. According to the Principal Judge's Circular, except for Commercial Court Judges who must attend to only Commercial Court cases, the rest of the Judges of the High Court who are based in Kampala are members of the Criminal Division irrespective of the other Divisions of the High Court that they belong to.

Each of the above judges is supposed to do, at least, one High Court Criminal Session in a year at Kampala

Physical address
High Court Building at Plot 2, the Square.
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December 1992
Criminal law|Evidence Law
17 December 1992
Criminal law|Evidence Law
15 December 1992
Criminal law
12 December 1992
Criminal law|Evidence Law
10 December 1992
August 1992
Criminal law
13 August 1992
June 1992
Conviction quashed where prosecution failed to prove embezzlement and an alleged oral admission was improperly admitted.
Criminal law – Embezzlement – essential elements (receipt/taking by virtue of employment) – burden of proof; Admissibility of alleged oral admissions – requirement for trial-within-a-trial and voluntariness; Bank cheques and banking entries – effect on ownership and relevance to theft/embezzlement; Appellate review – rehearing and re-evaluation of evidence where trial court failed to resolve contradictions.
18 June 1992