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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Citation
Judgment date
November 2014
Sentencing without a formal charge or plea and a judge acting as witness/prosecutor was grossly irregular; sentence quashed.
Criminal procedure – Contempt of court – Requirement for formal charge and plea (MCA ss.124,126–128,133) – Prosecutor acting as witness – Judge as witness/complainant – Necessity of impartial adjudicator – Illegality of sentencing on a non‑existing charge.
18 November 2014
Criminal law
7 November 2014