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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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High Court Building at Plot 2, the Square.

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October 2019
Uganda v Ssonko (Criminal Revision Appl. No. 12 of 2019) [2019] UGHCCRD 42 (2 October 2019) A trial court wrongly stayed an ongoing criminal prosecution for land offences in favour of a later civil suit. Criminal procedure – Revisionary jurisdiction – Misapplication of section 209 MCA to stay previously instituted criminal proceedings in favour of later civil suit; criminal matters ordinarily take precedence over civil disputes; caution against criminalizing land disputes; DPP’s duty to consider public interest.	2 October 2019

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Judgment date

October 2019

Uganda v Ssonko (Criminal Revision Appl. No. 12 of 2019) [2019] UGHCCRD 42 (2 October 2019)

A trial court wrongly stayed an ongoing criminal prosecution for land offences in favour of a later civil suit.

Criminal procedure – Revisionary jurisdiction – Misapplication of section 209 MCA to stay previously instituted criminal proceedings in favour of later civil suit; criminal matters ordinarily take precedence over civil disputes; caution against criminalizing land disputes; DPP’s duty to consider public interest.

2 October 2019