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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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High Court Building at Plot 2, the Square.

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Citation	Judgment date
April 2003
Uganda v Wafula & Anor (HCT-04-CR-SC-283/2002) [2003] UGHCCRD 4 (1 April 2003) Prosecution failed to prove a prima facie murder case where deceased and attackers were not properly identified. Criminal law — Murder — elements — requirement to prove identity of deceased and participation of accused; prima facie case — Bhatt v R test; inadmissible/insufficient unidentified post‑mortem and eyewitness evidence; acquittal under s.71(1) TID for no case to answer.	1 April 2003

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Judgment date

April 2003

Uganda v Wafula & Anor (HCT-04-CR-SC-283/2002) [2003] UGHCCRD 4 (1 April 2003)

Prosecution failed to prove a prima facie murder case where deceased and attackers were not properly identified.

Criminal law — Murder — elements — requirement to prove identity of deceased and participation of accused; prima facie case — Bhatt v R test; inadmissible/insufficient unidentified post‑mortem and eyewitness evidence; acquittal under s.71(1) TID for no case to answer.

1 April 2003