Betty Amongi, the former minister of Gender and Labour, acted illegally and unlawfully when she fired Osborn Turyasigura, an employee in the ministry, over allegations that he used forged academic documents to acquire a job, the court has ruled. In a ruling, Justice Simon Peter Kinobe declared that the decision to terminate Turyasigura was illegal…
A political argument on NBS TV that former lord mayor Lukwago Erias said turned into a frightening physical attack has ended with the High Court ruling that the alleged assault was not proved. Justice Bonny Isaac Teko has dismissed a case in which Lukwago accused former government spokesman Ofwono Opondo of attacking him in July…
The government’s decision to list the Kampala Pentocostal Church (KPC) building along Kampala Road as a historical and cultural site has been quashed by the court after its owner, Watoto Church, challenged the decision, saying it was illegal, irrational and procedurally improper. Justice Bonny Isaac Teko said the government had failed to demonstrate that the…
The High Court has overturned a decision that had given the husband sole custody of the children he shares with his former wife, saying that the magistrate who issued the first orders had acted outside the law when she changed an earlier consent agreement between the couple. Justice John Eudes Keitirima said the lower court…
The High Court in Jinja has ordered a mother and her son to pay Shs20 million to another son, a magistrate, after finding that they defamed him by accusing him of forgery, fraud, theft, and abuse of his judicial office. The case was brought by Steven Johnson Waidhuuba, a Grade II Magistrate who worked in…
The High Court has dismissed a challenge by architect Jackson Muhwezi against his five-year suspension by the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority (PPDA), saying he had failed to prove that the procurement regulator acted illegally, unfairly or unreasonably. Justice Simon Peter M. Kinobe dismissed Muhwezi’s application and ordered that PPDA be paid…
Jackline Nakku, who had been sentenced to 20 years for allegedly killing her husband in 2018, has been freed by the Supreme Court, which said the evidence used to convict her was not strong enough to prove beyond reasonable doubt that she participated in the killing of her husband. The five justices of the court…
The Entebbe High Court circuit has inspected a disputed 306-acre piece of land at Nakigalala in Wakiso, including the remains of a family graveyard that relatives say was destroyed during the construction of the Entebbe Expressway. The court visit was led by Assistant Registrar Rashida Butanula, who toured parts of the contested land, spoke to…
The High Court has allowed Michael Mwesigwa, a former Bank of Africa employee, to defend himself in a Shs291.6 million debt recovery case brought against him by the bank. However, Justice Susan Odongo ordered him to first deposit Shs30 million in court within 30 days. The dispute goes back to Mwesigwa’s time as an employee…
FBW (Uganda), an architectural firm that was contracted by Meera Investments for design work on the expansion of Kabira Country Club in Bukoto, has been ordered to deposit Shs495 million in court within 45 days before its appeal against an earlier ruling can be heard. Justice Susan Odongo ruled that FBW and the other applicants…
A lady who wrote a defamatory social media post alleging that a young lawyer was a rapist and habitual abuser of women has been ordered to pay Shs 60 million by the High Court. Justice Collins Acellam awarded Douglas Kasirye, the lawyer, Shs50 million in general damages and another Shs10 million in exemplary damages after…
The High Court in Kitgum has acquitted a 14-year-old boy who was accused of aggravated defilement after ruling that the prosecution had failed to produce enough evidence to require him to defend himself. Justice Philip Mwaka, in a ruling, said the prosecution had not established a prima facie case against the juvenile, identified in court…
Private security firm Hash Security has been ordered to pay Shs115 million to a man who was shot twice in the thighs by one of its guards during a confrontation outside a bar in Bulenga in April 2022. Justice Bonny Isaac Teko said the firm was responsible for the injuries suffered by Zein Bukenya after…
Prominent businessman Patrick Bitature has built a habit of fighting his creditors and contractors on a technicality rather than the substance of what he owes them. The technicality is almost always the same. He argues that the company or professional pursuing him for money is not properly registered or licensed in Uganda and therefore has…
Prominent businessman and motivational speaker Patrick Bitature has been ordered by the court to pay Finicon Uganda, an architectural firm, more than Shs 955 million for work the firm did on two of his properties nearly 14 years ago. If you factor in the 9% per annum interest awarded by Justice Stephen Mubiru starting from…
Court upholds Shs570.6m URA tax bill against Regal Paints Regal Paints has been ordered to pay Shs 570.6 million in taxes to the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) arising from the importation of its Dr Fixit waterproofing products. Regal Paints manufactures paints, varnishes, printing ink and similar coatings. It imports raw materials for its decorative paints…
Elvis Ssekyanzi Wavamunno, once a budding entrepreneur and son of prominent businessman Gordon Wavamunno, has lost his bid to reopen a commercial court case in which Maru Capital is seeking to recover Shs164.86 million from him. Ssekyanzi had sought to stop the court from delivering a verdict, arguing that the case had been heard in…
The phrase “serviced apartment” became the centre of a tax dispute between businessman Sharad Karia and the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA), after the tax body argued that apartments he rented out in Kampala were not ordinary residential properties but serviced apartments whose income was liable to Value Added Tax (VAT). The dispute eventually reached the…
The Court of Appeal has ordered Muwema & Co. Advocates, a prominent law firm in Kampala, to deposit security of $100,000 (Shs370 million) before it can benefit from a stay of execution in its long-running dispute with Downtown Investments Ltd over an eviction dispute. The court also ordered that if the money is deposited in…
The High Court has acquitted Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) officer Joseph Nsubuga of receiving a Shs15 million bribe, but upheld the conviction and one-year prison sentence imposed on his colleague Gerald Mujurizi for corruption. Justice Jane Kajuga delivered the judgment on 3 August 2026 after hearing an appeal by Mujurizi and Nsubuga against their convictions…
Dr Jimmy Spire Ssentongo, the Makerere University philosophy lecturer, cartoonist and activist popularly known as “Spire”, has lost his bid to stop the High Court from enforcing a Shs30 million contempt of court penalty against him. The ruling delivered by Justice Bonny Isaac Teko dismisses Ssentongo’s application to stay, or pause, the execution of an…
A dispute over the qualifications of a defence witness has emerged in the case involving Pastor Robert Kayanja, of Rubaga Miracle Centre, after the prosecution questioned whether a specialist in dentistry and pathology is legally authorised to conduct forensic medical examinations in alleged sexual violence cases. The witness, Dr Phenehas Bwambaale, 44, of Kabalye Police…
On November 3, 2020, Mona Stella Kijunju, a businesswoman, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Hydra Homes Uganda to sell them a brick-making machine at Shs146 million. The agreement required Kijunju to deliver the machine within five working days to a destination chosen by Hydra Homes, which was supposed to pay within 40 working days…
In 2020, Francis Xavier Ssempiira, a Ugandan living in Canada, was introduced to Aline Nabami, a gold dealer who was also operating a garage in Kampala. Ssempiira was the founder of Yata Technologies Inc, a Canadian company. When the Covid-19 pandemic affected the company’s business in 2020, he decided to start a luxury jewellery line…
The Principal Judge, Jane Frances Abodo, has overturned the conviction of Sheethal Kumar, a former manager at Tagore Apartments and Tagore Living, for theft and cancelled a compensation order of Shs 37 million that had been imposed on him by a lower court. The apartments, located along Mawanda Road in Kamwokya, are owned by prominent…
The High Court has ruled that Spedag Interfreight, a courier company, was right to sell a consignment of frozen chicken that had been entrusted to it by Fresh Cuts after the importer failed to pay transport charges. Justice Susan Abinyo dismissed Fresh Cuts’ lawsuit in its entirety and instead awarded Spedag more than Shs100 million…
Between December 2012 and June 2014, William Barigye, an employee at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, discovered that money meant for him had been going to another person’s account at PostBank (now Pearl Bank). Barigye worked as an assistant commissioner in the Legal and Inspectorate Services Department. He maintained his personal bank account at Centenary…
Former Kyadondo East parliamentary candidate and lawyer Maria Nassali Masereka has publicly denied authorising a notice of intention to sue the Kabaka over the implementation of a 2013 agreement between the Buganda Kingdom and the Baruuli Cultural Institution. Speaking to journalists at her office in Kampala, Nassali said she only recently became aware of the…
Joweria Nakku thought the Shs68 million she had saved in her Stanbic Bank account was safe. She had opened the savings account in 2001 and mainly used it to keep money rather than make frequent withdrawals. But the account had remained largely inactive for years except for a regular monthly insurance deduction. Her problems began…
Julius Tumwesigye, the former finance manager of Prestige Driving School, has been ordered by the court to refund Shs170.52 million to the company that he irregularly received and retained from the firm’s bank account without lawful justification. Justice Bernard Namanya also awarded the company Shs10 million in general damages, in a ruling that underlines the…
The High Court has dismissed an application by two directors of KK Electrical Company (U) Limited seeking to stop their prosecution over allegations of tax evasion and VAT fraud. The court ruled that the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) acted lawfully in deciding to prosecute Mahmood Kasule and Henry Kasirye Masanganzira, the directors, who had gone to…
The High Court has dismissed an application by Dei Industries International and its proprietor, Dr Matthias Magoola, seeking to halt an ongoing independent audit process in their legal battle with Equity Bank Uganda Ltd and Equity Bank Kenya over a long-standing loan. Justice Susan Abinyo said Dei Industries and Magoola had failed to prove that…
Smart Protus Magara, a Ugandan who fleeced two Tanzanian businessmen of Shs500 million through the D9 investment scheme, has been ordered to refund them all the money with interest after the court discovered that the money had been deposited into his personal bank account and was never properly accounted for. Justice Bernard Namanya ruled that…
A family investment that began with hopes of building retirement homes in Naguru has ended in a costly court battle, with the High Court ordering Denis Tindyebwa and his wife, Christine Tindyebwa, to refund Shs 991 million to Geoffrey Tindyebwa and his wife, Lillian Njeri Tindyebwa. Justice Patience Rubagumya ruled that Geoffrey Tindyebwa had failed…
The High Court has ordered Monitor Publications, NTV Uganda and its reporter Deogratious Wamala to jointly pay lawyer Silver Kayondo Shs185 million for infringing on his copyright, falsely attributing statements to him and misrepresenting his views. Justice Dr Ginamia Melody Ngwatu also ordered the media organisations to publish an apology on their print and online…
One of the nine people accused in a case involving Pastor Robert Kayanja has told court that he was never the manager of Kayanja’s Kiryandongo farm, contradicting what the prosecution said was his previous position. Regan Ssentongo made the remarks during cross examination before Buganda Road Chief Magistrate Adams Byarugaba as the prosecution continued presenting…
The Industrial Court has ruled that Cavendish University was right to dismiss a senior lecturer, Dr Fredrick Kiwuwa Lugya, after discovering that he held two full-time jobs, at Cavendish and Makerere University. Cavendish University is a private university based in Nsambya, Kampala. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in law, business, health sciences, information technology…
Court has granted bail to Doreen Nabiimara, a resident of Najjera on the outskirts of Kampala, who was accused of helping launder Shs 9 billion through land deals. Justice Michael Elubu of the Anti-Corruption Court said Nabiimara qualified for release pending her trial on a charge of money laundering, even though he found weaknesses in…
Godfrey Adia, a prominent businessman in Arua, has secured a temporary legal victory over Stanbic Bank after the court ruled that the bank could not sell his property because it had failed to verify whether he had obtained his wife’s consent before taking out a mortgage. That dramatic argument became one of the central issues…
The Industrial Court has awarded Shs 14 million to a former Absa Bank data engineer, saying he was sacked unfairly after he was accused of removing electrical sockets from one of the branches without authorisation. Eddy Muleme worked for the bank, formerly known as Barclays Bank, from July 2007 until his dismissal in July 2018….
The High Court has dismissed an application by Movit Products Limited seeking an early victory in its land dispute with Uganda Prisons Service after finding that the government had not made a clear admission that would justify ending part of the case without a full trial. Justice Flavia Nabakooza said although government records showed that…
Sylvester Niyibaho, a former storekeeper at Picfare, will have to be paid Shs 9.9 million after the court ruled that hw was unfairly dismissed from the job over the disappearance of cartons of pens in his care. Justice Linda Lillian Tumusiime-Mugisha said Niyibaho’s dismissal was both procedurally and substantively unlawful and ordered Picfare to compensate…
The High Court has ordered Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) to pay Babaana Children of Uganda, a children-centred NGO, Shs 1.66 billion after the tax body unlawfully sold off donated medical equipment that had been imported from Switzerland to establish a specialised clinic in Uganda. Justice Bernard Namanya ruled that URA failed to follow the law…
One admission after another undid Ronald Zibu’s defence as he tried to fend off a divorce petition filed by his wife, Agnes Nabanooba. For instance, while insisting that he had done nothing wrong because he was a polygamous man, Zibu acknowledged under oath that he had fathered children with women he had never married under…
Kibuli Muslim Hospital has been ordered to compensate a mother with more than Shs 147 million after the negligence of one of its doctors led to the death of her newborn baby. The dispute began in August 2018 when Jaridah Kyofuna started attending antenatal care at the hospital. She said that throughout her pregnancy, doctors…
Prominent law firm Muwema & Co Advocates has dragged its former landlord, Downtown Investments, and seven others to the High Court, demanding at least Shs 15 billion in compensation after what it calls a violent and illegal eviction from its Kololo offices in March. Here is the breakdown of the Shs 15 billion. The law…
Kabira Country Club, owned by businessman Sudhir Ruparelia, has been ordered to pay its former receptionist, Robert Elwayu, Shs 9.4 million, after the court found that he was unlawfully dismissed following the accusation that he was “sleeping on the job.” Justice Anthony Wabwire Musana said although sleeping on duty can amount to gross misconduct, Kabira…
The High Court has dismissed an application by city dentist Dr Lule Ntwatwa seeking to halt criminal proceedings against him over the disputed ownership of land in Katanga in Wandegeya. Justice Paul Gadenya Wolimbwa ruled that the application had no merit because the complaints raised were largely procedural issues that should be addressed through the…
Sir Apollo Kaggwa Primary School will have to pay a former pupil, Naswif Katongole, Shs 5 million after two of its teachers caned him in 2011 and he suffered emotional and physical distress, Justice Simon Peter Kinobe has ruled. Justice Kinobe’s ruling brings to an end a legal battle that has raged for 15 years…
A businessman who had filed for divorce, claiming his wife was engaging in witchcraft, has been told to stay “in his marriage” after the court ruled that he failed to prove any of the legal grounds required to dissolve their 38-year marriage. Justice Alice Komuhangi Khaukha rejected allegations of witchcraft, cruelty, and desertion labeled against…
