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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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October 2011
Uganda V Nakimbuggwe (Criminal Session Case No. 59 of 2013) [2011] UGHCCRD 1 (21 October 2011)
Criminal law
 21 October 2011
June 2011
Asiimwe & Anor v Uganda (HCT-04-CR-CN-0048-2009) [2011] UGHCCRD 85 (10 June 2011)
10 June 2011
April 2011
Serugo v Uganda (HCT-00-CR-CN-0068-2009) [2011] UGHCCRD 86 (26 April 2011)
26 April 2011
January 2011
Uganda v Baitwabusa (Criminal Session Case No. 0131 of 2009) [2011] UGHCCRD 2 (14 January 2011)
Circumstantial proof, identification and witness interference established murder beyond reasonable doubt.
Criminal law — Murder (multiple counts) — Elements: death, unlawful homicide, malice aforethought — Circumstantial evidence — Identification evidence and prior inconsistent statements — Missing police statement and witness disappearance — Adverse inference — Standard for conviction on circumstantial evidence.
 14 January 2011
Uganda v Odongo & Ors (Criminal Session Case No. 0066 of 2009) [2011] UGHCCRD 3 (14 January 2011)
An accomplice’s confession corroborated by circumstantial evidence supports joint murder convictions under common intention doctrine.
Criminal law – Murder: proof of death, unlawful homicide and malice aforethought; Accomplice evidence – caution and corroboration required; Joint offenders/common intention – liability of each participant where murder was probable consequence of common unlawful purpose; Circumstantial evidence – phone/SIM recovery and inconsistent alibi as corroboration.
 14 January 2011