The Court of Appeal has ordered for the retrial of a case in which businessman Hamis Kiggundu and DTB Limited are fighting over a loan advanced to him through his Ham Enterprises. In a unanimous judgement delivered today, the judges quashed last year’s orders of the lower court that outlawed the loans advanced to Ham Enterprises. The judges, Richard Buteera (deputy chief justice), Christopher Madrama and Kenneth Kakuru faulted the High Court Henry Peter Adonyo for failing to appreciate the law and the evidence on record. They also ordered the businessman to lay legal costs incurred by the bank. In the lead…
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Court has ordered businessman John Tiborugaba Kasangaki to pay with interest, $53,871 as outstanding funds for bicycles and spare parts he received more than two decades ago from a group Indian traders. The court also ordered Kasangaki to pay Shs15m as compensation for the inconveniences caused to the traders; Rajeev Jain, Rajesh Jain and Sanjeev Jain under their R&R Bikes Limited. In a unanimous judgement delivered on Monday, the Court of Appeal judges; Elizabeth Musoke, Geoffrey Kiryabiwre and Irene Mulyagonja dismissed an appeal in which Kasangaki, a bicycle dealer had sought to overturn a lower court judgment that directed him…
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The Court of Appeal has halted the execution of an order requiring a Chinese road Construction Company; China Henan International Cooperation Group Company Limited to pay billions of shillings in compensation to its former consultant Justus Kyabahwa. Justice Christopher Madrama of the Appeal Court issued an interim order stopping any further payments and or transfer of money from the company’s accounts in Guarantee Trust Bank Limited pending determination for the main application by three judges. Justice Madrama said the order is in regard to garnishee orders that were not executed as of April 19 this year. A garnishee order is…
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The Court of Appeal in Kampala has dismissed with costs, an application by administrators of Simbamanyo Estates Limite in which they wanted the auctioning of its prime properties in Kampala which was meant for Equity Bank Ltd to recover outstanding loans worth $10.8 million (Shs40 billion) to be halted. According to Justice Christopher Madrama, Simbamanyo Estates does not have acceptable grounds for court to deny the bank legal costs incurred. “…the respondent (Equity Bank) upon being served, instructed lawyers and the lawyers took action to oppose the application by filing the appropriate affidavits in reply, as well as written submissions,”…
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When the hunter is hunted, then the hunting game is over-so they say; but it also appears, for the Inspectorate of Government, when an inspector is appointed to inspect the…
