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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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Citation	Judgment date
March 2020
Uganda v Baliruno & Ors (Criminal Session No.29 of 2018) [2020] UGHCCRD 44 (4 March 2020) A1 convicted of murder based on eyewitness identification, postmortem and exhibits; A2 and A3 acquitted for lack of corroborative evidence. Criminal law – Murder – elements: death, unlawful act, malice aforethought and responsibility; Identification evidence – single identifying witness and corroboration; Admissible postmortem and exhibits; Insufficiency of hearsay/circumstantial evidence to convict co-accused; Remand credit on sentence.	4 March 2020

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March 2020

Uganda v Baliruno & Ors (Criminal Session No.29 of 2018) [2020] UGHCCRD 44 (4 March 2020)

A1 convicted of murder based on eyewitness identification, postmortem and exhibits; A2 and A3 acquitted for lack of corroborative evidence.

Criminal law – Murder – elements: death, unlawful act, malice aforethought and responsibility; Identification evidence – single identifying witness and corroboration; Admissible postmortem and exhibits; Insufficiency of hearsay/circumstantial evidence to convict co-accused; Remand credit on sentence.

4 March 2020