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
January 2015
Appellant proved respondent unlawfully trespassed by removing boundary marks; acquittal set aside and conviction entered.
Criminal trespass – removal of boundary marks – ownership versus possession – evaluation of evidence; prior civil decree and convictions as proof of unlawful entry; inadmissibility of referring resolved civil rights to fresh civil trial.
28 January 2015
13 January 2015