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
April 2015
Criminal law
17 April 2015
Applicant’s asthma and proposed sureties were insufficient to establish exceptional circumstances for bail pending trial.
* Criminal procedure – Bail pending trial – Discretion to grant bail – Medical grounds. * Medical evidence – chronic asthma – adequacy of prison medical care – requirement to prove inability of prison to manage condition. * Bail requirements – fixed place of abode and substantial, credible sureties.
17 April 2015
Bail sought on murder charge; court weighed risk of absconding and protection of society and ordered prompt trial.
* Criminal procedure – Bail – Application for bail in a murder charge – Factors: presumption of innocence, risk of absconding, sureties, fixed abode, prior bail history, pending charges, and protection of society. * Bail – Health grounds – Claim of serious illness (asthma/pneumonia) as a reason for release. * Remand – Prolonged remand beyond mandatory bail period and the need to expedite trial.
17 April 2015
Criminal law
15 April 2015
Criminal law
9 April 2015
Criminal law
7 April 2015
Criminal law|Burden of Proof
6 April 2015
Criminal law
1 April 2015
Criminal law
1 April 2015