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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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July 2014
Naluwemba & Anor v Uganda (Criminal Appeal Number 04/2011) [2014] UGHCCRD 35 (19 July 2014)
Criminal law
 19 July 2014
Mugizi v Uganda (SESSION CASE NO. HCT-00-AC-CN-0001/2014) [2014] UGHCCRD 34 (18 July 2014)
Criminal law
 18 July 2014
Uganda v Akandwanaho (High Court Criminal Session Case No.164 of 2014) [2014] UGHCCRD 106 (16 July 2014)
Criminal law
 16 July 2014
Uganda v Atiku & Anor (High Court Criminal Session Case No.155 of 2014) [2014] UGHCCRD 98 (16 July 2014)
Criminal law
 16 July 2014
Uganda v Baguma (High Court Criminal Session Case No.35 of 2014) [2014] UGHCCRD 105 (16 July 2014)
Criminal law
 16 July 2014
Uganda v Bahemuka & Anor (High Court Criminal Session Case No.163 of 2014) [2014] UGHCCRD 396 (16 July 2014)
Post‑Kigula resentencing: court substituted death with 38‑year prison terms after weighing aggravators, mitigation, and remand time.
Criminal law – Sentencing – Resentencing after abolition of mandatory death penalty (Kigula/Ambaa) – High Court discretion to impose imprisonment – Consideration of aggravating and mitigating factors – "Rarest of the rare" doctrine – Deduction for time on remand – 38‑year terms imposed.
 16 July 2014
Uganda v Bwangalo & Ors (High Court Criminal Session Case No.183 of 2014) [2014] UGHCCRD 108 (16 July 2014)
Criminal law
 16 July 2014
Uganda v Kagwa (High Court Criminal Session Case No.177 of 2014) [2014] UGHCCRD 99 (16 July 2014)
Criminal law
 16 July 2014
Uganda v Twikirize (High Court Criminal Session Case No.133 of 2014) [2014] UGHCCRD 497 (16 July 2014)
Following abolition of mandatory death sentences, the convict was resentenced to 37 years imprisonment, with remand time deducted.
Criminal law – Sentencing after invalidation of mandatory death penalty; remission for mitigation; application of Constitutional sentencing guidelines; consideration of aggravating (brutal murder of a child) and mitigating factors (first offender, reports, remand time); deduction of remand time from sentence.
 16 July 2014
Uganda v Olupot & Ors (Criminal Session Case No. 22 of 2012) [2014] UGHCCRD 53 (3 July 2014)
Criminal law
 3 July 2014
Uganda v Sowedi (Criminal Session Case No. 27 of 2012) [2014] UGHCCRD 56 (3 July 2014)
Criminal law
 3 July 2014
Uganda v Mukalu & Anor (Criminal Session Case No. 50 of 2009) [2014] UGHCCRD 50 (1 July 2014)
Criminal law
 1 July 2014