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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April 2023
28 April 2023
28 April 2023
25 April 2023

Murder—burden of proof—presumption of innocence—malice aforethought—call data evidence—retracted confession—police procedural errors—torture allegations—lack of direct evidence—acquittal

24 April 2023
17 April 2023
17 April 2023
13 April 2023
13 April 2023
13 April 2023
13 April 2023
5 April 2023
5 April 2023