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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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March 2020
Uganda v Baliruno & Ors (Criminal Session No.29 of 2018) [2020] UGHCCRD 44 (4 March 2020)
A single identifying witness and forensic injury evidence established the accused's guilt; co‑accused acquitted for insufficient corroboration.
  • Criminal law — Murder
    • — Identification by single witness — Reliability and conditions for positive identification
    • — Malice aforethought — Inference from targeting head and nature of injuries
  • Evidence — Circumstantial evidence and suspicion — Acquittal where independent corroboration is lacking
4 March 2020