Behind the gleaming figures of a clean financial audit and commendable regulatory performance, the Uganda Retirement Benefits Regulatory Authority (URBRA) is grappling with internal cracks. URBRA regulates a sensitive sector…
In a recent ruling that has captured the attention of Uganda’s business community, businessman Haruna Sentongo, the brother of billionaire businessman Hamis Kigundu, has been ordered by Uganda’s Court of…
President Museveni, will on February 09th 2024 inaugurate the Judiciary’s twin-tower office block. Construction of the seven-storey twin appellate courts buildings with two basement floor parking for 226 vehicles, started in November 2019. Construction was done by Seyani Brothers & Co Limited for UGX63.9 billion and was fully funded by the Government of Uganda. The office complex hosts customised courthouses with modern courtrooms, chambers for the justices, a gym and a restaurant, among other amenities. The idea of building the Appellate courts was first mooted in 1999 but did not start until 2019 under Permanent Secretary, Pius Bigirimana’s reign. It…
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Three Justices of Appeal, led by Deputy Chief Justice Hon. Justice Richard Buteera, Hon. Justice Catherine Bamugemereire, and Hon. Mr. Justice Stephen Musota, have ordered Absa Bank Uganda, to pay Progressive Group Of Schools Ltd and its proprietors Ab’mooti Investments Ltd And Kaahwa Erisa Amooti for fraudulently and illegally foreclosing on their school and properties in 2009. Absa Bank Uganda is jointly liable with Luyanzi Academic Foundation, the company that bought the school from the Bank. The three justices dismissed Hon. Justice David Wangutusi’s High Court Ruling, Civil Suit No. 204 of 2009 (Commercial Division) delivered on 21st August 2019…
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The High Court has ordered Citibank to attach and remit UGX450 million from Daily Monitor’s bank account to an account in Stanbic Bank in favour of the Permanent Secretary/ Secretary to the Judiciary Pius Bigirimana. In January 2023, the Court of Appeal upheld an earlier High Court ruling that ordered the Nation Media Group-owned newspaper to pay Bigirimana, UGX450 million as compensatory damages for defaming him in a series of articles published on several dates between 2012 and 2015. Following the Court of Appeal ruling, the newspaper filed an application for a stay of execution and an interim stay of…
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The Court of Appeal has quashed an order of the High Court directing the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) to refund UGX 14billion, being the 10% employer contribution for over 900 employees of Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL). NSSF had appealed against the decision of the High Court. Uganda Telecom had filed a case against the MD NSSF and the Fund challenging certain actions by which NSSF collected monies as statutory contributions for UTL. UTL was incorporated with Uganda Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (UPTC), a statutory corporation which offered similar services. They claim that upon incorporation, the employees of UPTC by…
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Court has ordered the defunct Lanex Forex Bureau Limited to pay $160,000 to its former client, Damas Mulagwe as a refund of what was taken as deposit contrary to the regulations governing financial institutions. Court of Appeal judges Cheborion Barishaki, Stephen Musota and Christopher Madrama unanimously dismissed with costs, the appeal in which Lanex Forex Bureau Limited had sought to overturn a lower court decision. In the lead judgment, Justice Madrama held that the appeal did not have merit since the forex bureau received the deposit yet it is prohibited by law from accepting deposits from customers. “Its officials were…
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The Court of Appeal has dismissed a case in which Nakasero Market Sitting Tenants (NAMASITE) was challenging the dismissal of its case against the award of a sub-lease for the redevelopment of the Market. In a unanimous judgement, three justices of the Appeal Court; Fredrick Egonda-Ntende, Stephen Musota and Remmy Kasule disallowed the appeal in which NAMASITE was challenging the dismissal of its case. A group of traders under their NAMASITE had faulted the High Court for failing to appreciate the law and facts of the case before dismissing its case on reasoning lack of sufficient evidence. Court documents indicate…
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The Court of Appeal has dismissed with costs, an appeal in which the Bank of Uganda (BOU) had sought to challenge a labour court decision that awarded hundreds of millions to its former employees. In February 2016, the Industrial Court ordered the Central Bank to pay UGX100 million to each of the five former workers, with interest at 21 percent. The five; Joseph Kibuuka, George Tabu, Nelson Kibuuka, Wilson Segane and Abubaker Wasswa were retrenched in 2010 in a job redesign that sent them into early retirement. In the lead judgement, Court of Appeal Judge, Irene Mulyagonja held that the…
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