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HC: Land Division (Uganda)

The Land Division is a Division created at the High Court Head office at Kampala.

The Division is charged with the following functions:Responsibility of supervising the work of Land Tribunals, the adjudication of all land related dispute fall under this Division. The land Division is established with three judges with a separate registry for the Division .There is a Registrar for the Land Division who doubles as the Registrar of the Land Tribunals. A desk office was also established under the office of the Registrar to handle the activities of the District Land Tribunals.

 

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December 2013
Ssengoba v Commissioner Land Registration (Miscellaneous Cause No. 56 of 2012) [2013] UGHCLD 97 (19 December 2013)
A vesting order cannot issue where the seller was not the registered proprietor and had no letters of administration.
Land law – Vesting orders under section 167 RTA – requirements for vesting orders (sale by registered proprietor, full payment, possession, acquiescence, inability to obtain transfer) – registered proprietor deceased – necessity of letters of administration before dealing with estate land – High Court may entertain vesting applications though Registrar is primary forum – supplementary affidavit cannot amend substantive relief.
 19 December 2013
Olyomoki & 416 others Vs National Forestry Authority (Civil Suit No. 161 of 2013) [2013] UGHCLD 91 (4 December 2013)
Court granted a temporary injunction preserving occupants' possession of forest reserve land pending trial, finding jurisdiction and prima facie case.
* Civil procedure – Temporary injunction – jurisdiction to grant injunctive relief against a state body – Civil Procedure Act s64(c); Judicature Act ss38(1),13(a); O.41 CPR. * Interim relief – requirements: maintenance of status quo; prima facie case; risk of irreparable harm; balance of convenience. * Forest reserve – occupation pending degazettement – question whether occupation is premature to be determined at trial.
 4 December 2013
Mpanga v Senteza (Civil Suit No. 76 of 2011) [2013] UGHCLD 90 (3 December 2013)
Administrator’s failure to account and mismanagement warranted revocation of grant and appointment of new administrators.
Succession law – revocation of Letters of Administration – failure to exhibit inventory or account – section 234 Succession Act; Judicature Act s.15 – enforcement of customary decisions not repugnant to natural justice; remedies – revocation, declaration of entitlement, appointment of new administrators, surrender of title, injunction, costs.
 3 December 2013