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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

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June 1999
Uganda v Serwadda and Another (Criminal Session Case 401 of 1999) [1999] UGHCCRD 1 (28 June 1999) First accused convicted of murder; second accused convicted as accessory after the fact despite plea of compulsion. * Criminal law – Murder – Elements: death, unlawfulness, malice aforethought, causation by accused.* Evidence – Extra‑judicial statement and circumstantial evidence – sufficiency to identify principal offender.* Accomplice law – Accessory after the fact versus compulsion – liability where suspect assists concealment.* Sentence – Death for murder; mitigation and remand credit for accessory after the fact.	28 June 1999

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June 1999

Uganda v Serwadda and Another (Criminal Session Case 401 of 1999) [1999] UGHCCRD 1 (28 June 1999)

First accused convicted of murder; second accused convicted as accessory after the fact despite plea of compulsion.

* Criminal law – Murder – Elements: death, unlawfulness, malice aforethought, causation by accused.* Evidence – Extra‑judicial statement and circumstantial evidence – sufficiency to identify principal offender.* Accomplice law – Accessory after the fact versus compulsion – liability where suspect assists concealment.* Sentence – Death for murder; mitigation and remand credit for accessory after the fact.

28 June 1999