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HC: Family Division (Uganda)

The Family Division was created in  April 2005 as a division of the high court that handles: Administration causes, Family causes, (Adoption, Guardianship, Affiliation/maintenance), Miscellaneous causes, Miscellaneous applications, Civil appeals, Civil suits, Originating summons, Civil revisions and Divorce cases.

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Makindye Chief Magistrates' Court at Mobutu Road .
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December 2021
Nakiberu v Kalemera ( as administrator for the estate of the late rtd Justice Musoke Kibuuka) (Miscellaneous Application No. 82 of 2021) [2021] UGHCFD 5 (3 December 2021)
Applicant granted substituted service, fresh summons and costs where respondent obstructed or refused personal service.
* Civil procedure – substituted service – Order 5 Rule 18 CPR – when personal service is obstructed or refused. * Service – procedure where defendant refuses to acknowledge receipt – return of service and examination of process server (Order 5 Rules 15 and 17). * Fair hearing – Article 28 – balancing notice requirements with practicality of effecting service. * Relief – fresh summons, substituted service, leave to serve out of time, costs.
 3 December 2021
Sendege v Nanono & Another (Miscellaneous Application 24 of 2019) [2021] UGHCFD 230 (3 December 2021)

 

 3 December 2021
Sentongo (Administrator of the estate of Namyalo Nalongo) v Kiyimba and Another (Civil Suit No. 53 of 2016) [2021] UGHCFD 214 (3 December 2021)
An administrator or beneficiary may sue to protect an undivided estate without Order 1 Rule 8 written authority.
Succession Act s.272 – administrators' powers; Legal representative – grant of letters of administration; Civil Procedure Order 1 r.8 – representative actions and written authority; Beneficiaries' locus to sue to preserve undivided estate; Competence of suits by administrator/beneficiary to protect estate.
 3 December 2021