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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Judgment date
May 2013
Criminal law
30 May 2013
Criminal law
14 May 2013
Criminal law|Evidence Law
13 May 2013
Constitutional Law|Criminal law
9 May 2013
Criminal law|Evidence Law|Burden of Proof
3 May 2013
Convictions quashed where unreliable identification, non‑disclosure, flawed locus in quo and misapplied standard caused miscarriage of justice.
Criminal law – identification evidence – unreliable and inconsistent eyewitness accounts; Alibi – defences not properly disproved; Disclosure – failure to disclose earlier inconsistent statements; Locus in quo – improperly conducted visit vitiating evidence; Standard of proof – misdirection by adopting lower test; Joint trials – difficulties in trying many accused together; Remedy – convictions quashed for miscarriage of justice.
2 May 2013
Criminal law|Evidence Law
2 May 2013