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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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October 2020
Sawula v Uganda (Criminal Revision 13 of 2020) [2020] UGHCCRD 148 (16 October 2020)
High Court upheld magistrate’s reconciliation-made maintenance order, dismissing challenge that criminal court lacked jurisdiction.
Revision — High Court supervisory powers; Magistrates Courts Act s.160 reconciliation; Penal Code s.157 neglect to provide for a child; jurisdiction to make maintenance/compensation orders in criminal reconciliation; discretionary approval of terms to meet victims’ needs.
 16 October 2020
Uganda v Bakole (Criminal Session 73 of 2019) [2020] UGHCCRD 157 (8 October 2020)
Accused convicted of murder by arson: setting occupied house alight established malice and responsibility, sentenced to life imprisonment.
Criminal law – Murder by arson – elements: death, unlawfulness, malice aforethought, and responsibility. Arson – setting occupied dwelling ablaze constitutes malice when death to occupants is foreseeable. Circumstantial evidence and conduct after the event can establish responsibility. Alibi defence does not shift burden; fails if it does not raise reasonable doubt.
 8 October 2020
Kikabi v Uganda (Criminal Revision Application No. 69 of 2020) [2020] UGHCCRD 146 (1 October 2020)
Bail granted where accused was traceable, had credible sureties and an unrebutted recantation by the victim's mother.
Criminal law – Bail pending trial – Traceability, adequate sureties and community ties – Weight of victim’s recantation – Benefit of doubt at bail stage – Aggravated defilement (s.129(3) & (4)(a) Penal Code).
 1 October 2020