Odoo Vs Omara (Civil Appeal No. 4 of 2012) [2019] UGCA 22 (4 April 2019)

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Civil Procedure|Appeals and reviews|Jurisdiction

Case summary

The court held that as the third appellate court, it I required to deal with matters of law alone. That this being a third, it could only be commenced with a certificate from the high court which was not complied with. Since jurisdiction is a creature of statute, the court of appeal didn’t have the jurisdiction to hear the appeal and the preliminary objection succeeds and the appeal was dismissed.

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