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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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November 2006
Uganda v Kiyingi (Criminal Session Case No. 0030 of 2006) [2006] UGHCCRD 1 (12 November 2006) Remote past threats alone and inconclusive circumstantial evidence do not satisfy the burden to convict for murder. Criminal law – murder – admissibility and weight of past threats – temporal proximity required to form same transaction; circumstantial evidence – conviction only if inference of guilt excludes other reasonable explanations; burden of proof beyond reasonable doubt.	12 November 2006

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November 2006

Uganda v Kiyingi (Criminal Session Case No. 0030 of 2006) [2006] UGHCCRD 1 (12 November 2006)

Remote past threats alone and inconclusive circumstantial evidence do not satisfy the burden to convict for murder.

Criminal law – murder – admissibility and weight of past threats – temporal proximity required to form same transaction; circumstantial evidence – conviction only if inference of guilt excludes other reasonable explanations; burden of proof beyond reasonable doubt.

12 November 2006