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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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https://judiciary.go.ug/data/smenu/13/Criminal%20Division.html
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October 2019
Uganda v Lubwama Levi (Criminal Session Case No. 480 of 2017) [2019] UGHCCRD 457 (10 October 2019)
Court held accused was an adult at the time of a premeditated murder and robbery and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
  • Criminal law — plea of guilty — aggravated robbery and murder — age of offender at time of offence — authenticity of birth and school documents — police investigation into age — sentencing as adult; sentencing principles — aggravating factors, deterrence, limited mitigation; reception of investigative report in sentencing hearing.
10 October 2019
Uganda v Ssonko (Criminal Revision Appl. No. 12 of 2019) [2019] UGHCCRD 42 (2 October 2019)
High Court set aside a magistrate’s stay of a criminal trial in favour of a later civil suit over a land dispute.
  • Criminal law — Stay of proceedings — Whether s.209 Magistrates Courts Act justifies staying a previously instituted criminal trial in favour of a later civil suit
  • Criminal procedure — Revisionary jurisdiction — High Court power to call for and examine magistrates’ records and correct errors (s.48, s.50 Criminal Procedure Code; s.17 Judicature Act)
  • Constitutional/prosecutorial discretion — Criminalization of land disputes — DPP’s duty to consider public interest and prevent abuse of process (Art. 120(5))
2 October 2019