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

Physical address
High Court Building at Plot 2, the Square.
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November 2023
20 November 2023
High Court set aside proceedings for coerced payments, defective charge sheet and improper reconciliation.
Criminal procedure – revision powers of High Court; coerced payments/reconciliation in criminal trials; defective charge sheets (statement vs particulars); reconciliation not permitted for felonies; judicial bias/recusal obligations; jurisdiction of magistrate.
9 November 2023
9 November 2023