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.

 

Physical address
Twed Towers, along Kafu Road, Nakasero, Kampala.
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May 2025

 

30 May 2025
A suit alleging fraud cannot be dismissed as time-barred at the preliminary stage where disputed facts require trial.
Civil Procedure – Preliminary objections – Whether suit time-barred in context of alleged fraud – Limitation Act, section 25 – Requirement for undisputed facts for preliminary objection – Stay of proceedings pending costs – Judgment on admission – Disputed authority of board resolution.
30 May 2025

 

30 May 2025
Interim stay granted where an appeal and substantive stay application are pending and a real threat of execution exists.
Civil procedure – Interim stay of execution – Requirements: competent notice of appeal, substantive application pending, serious threat of execution – Threat evidenced by warrant of arrest for debt recovery – Interim relief to prevent nugatory hearing.
29 May 2025
29 May 2025
29 May 2025
29 May 2025
A contempt finding requires actual knowledge of the relevant order and is unenforceable against non-parties unaware of it.
Contempt of court – Temporary injunction – Requirement for knowledge of court order – Effect of personam orders on non-parties – Proof of service – Application of contempt to individuals not party to original suit.
27 May 2025

 

26 May 2025

 

26 May 2025
A suit for recovery of land premised on fraud is not time-barred if filed within twelve years from discovery of the fraud.
Land law – limitation of actions – fraud – limitation period in cases of land recovery based on fraud – computation of limitation from date of discovery of fraud – procedure – effect of bringing an application under the wrong procedure.
21 May 2025

 

21 May 2025

 

21 May 2025

 

19 May 2025

 

15 May 2025

 

15 May 2025
A caveat lodged by an estate administrator was removed due to inordinate delay, despite the administrator's caveatable interest.
Land law – Caveats – Caveatable interest – Removal of caveat for inordinate delay – Administrator's rights – Reasonable cause for lodging a caveat – Distinction between beneficiary caveat and caveat by administrator.
14 May 2025
A suit for recovery of land filed over 12 years after dispossession is time-barred under Uganda's Limitation Act.
Civil procedure – limitation of actions – recovery of land – distinction between trespass and recovery of land – effect of plaintiff’s dispossession – running of time under the Limitation Act – statutory bar to stale claims – exception for fraud.
12 May 2025

 

9 May 2025

 

9 May 2025

 

9 May 2025

 

7 May 2025

 

7 May 2025

 

7 May 2025

 

6 May 2025

Property law—easements—access to landlocked plot—seller failed to ensure access route—court found implied easement—Commissioner directed to resurvey land—access road to be created—general damages awarded—permanent injunction declined—interest and costs granted

6 May 2025

 

5 May 2025

 

5 May 2025

 

5 May 2025