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 2016
Criminal law|Evidence Law|Admissibility
27 May 2016
Criminal law
20 May 2016
Criminal law|Evidence Law
19 May 2016
Criminal law
19 May 2016
Criminal law
19 May 2016
Criminal law
19 May 2016
Accused convicted of aggravated defilement and incest based on victim’s testimony corroborated by maternal and medical evidence.
Criminal law – Aggravated defilement and incest – proof of age – corroboration of child’s evidence by mother and medical report – identification and opportunity – rejection of false-accusation defence
19 May 2016
Whether voice identification and recent possession of stolen goods suffice to prove aggravated robbery.
Criminal law – Aggravated robbery – Voice identification by a familiar witness – Doctrine of recent possession of stolen property – Use/threat of panga as deadly weapon – Corroborative circumstantial evidence
19 May 2016
Eyewitness and injury evidence established unlawful killing with malice, leading to conviction for murder.
Criminal law – murder: elements of death, unlawfulness and malice aforethought; reliance on eyewitness and medical evidence; rejection of intoxication defence
18 May 2016
Criminal law|Evidence Law|Witness Testimony
16 May 2016
Convicted of aggravated defilement where child testimony, eyewitnesses, medical evidence and confession corroborated one another.
Criminal law – Aggravated defilement – child under 14 – requirement for corroboration of child’s evidence – medical evidence of anal injury – admissible confession corroborated by witnesses
16 May 2016
Criminal law|Evidence Law
16 May 2016
Criminal law|Evidence Law
12 May 2016
Criminal law
11 May 2016
Criminal law|Evidence Law
10 May 2016
No case to answer upheld where improperly conducted identification parade left no evidence linking the accused to the offence.
Criminal procedure — no case to answer — identification parade — admissibility and procedural safeguards — unreliable identification — insufficient evidence — acquittal
5 May 2016
Criminal law
4 May 2016