The High Court in Kampala ordered Aya Investment (U) Ltd (Defendant) to pay Sanlam General Insurance (U) Ltd (Plaintiff) US$ 38,773.17 and UGX 33,655,264/= as the sums outstanding for breach of insurance contracts. The embattled company has also been ordered to pay the Plaintiff general damages of UGX. 5,000,000/ = Giving her judgement on April 12, 2022, Justice Jeanne Rwakakooko also granted Sanlam General Insurance an interest of 10% per annum from date of default until payment in full. The court heard that the Defendant took out various insurance policies with the Plaintiff in the years 2018-2019 including Assets All…
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The High Court Kampala on April 12, 2022 dismissed with costs an application in which Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) had appealed against the ruling by Tax Appeals Tribunal in favour of M-KOPA Uganda Ltd. In 2017, M-KOPA Uganda Ltd filed a suit against URA before the Tax Appeals Tribunal vide TAT Application No. 15 of 2017 contesting a tax assessment of UGX. 429,603,357/= on solar equipment imported and supplied by the same company, the case that M-KOPA subsequently won. URA later appealed to the High Court, expressing its dissatisfaction with the tribunal’s decision. The application sought for orders that: 1)…
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Dei Minerals International proprietor Mathias Magoola has opened a defamation case against Igara East Member of Parliament Michael Mawanda, alleging malicious falsehoods through the media. Documents and letters on court record show that TASKK Advocates, Magoola’s lawyers have written to MP Mawanda over alleged defamatory and frivolous media stories, noting that his reputation as businessmen has been shattered beyond repair. “The integrity and credibility built by the plaintiff through his vast nature of both external and internal financiers, investors, clientele, employees, relatives, friends, in-laws during a span of time was shattered due to authoring, editing and publishing of frivolous, fictitious…
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The Commercial Division of the High Court has set aside the execution of the warrant of arrest against the managing director of Dei Minerals International, Mathias Magoola in a case where a former minister wants to be paid UGX268 billion in legal fees. While setting aside the arrest warrant, High Court Judge Anna Mugenyi questioned the manner in which the former minister of Urban Development Isaac Musumba, and his lawyers obtained the warrant, saying its execution would disadvantage Magoola. Musumba had represented Dei Minerals International in a legal dispute, which saw his clients claim a compensation of $241 million (over…
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The High Court has ruled that state minister for transport, Joy Kabatsi acted illegally to direct the Uganda Civil Aviation Authority (UCAA) to send on forced leave its former director of human resource and administration in May last year. Justice Musa Ssekaana held that the decision of the Minister requesting Jabbe Pascal Osinde Osudo to go on forced leave in absence of the Board was unlawful. The judge, however, ruled that the Court could give any orders affecting Osudo’s employment since he was no longer in the same employment after his job was already terminated following a case in regard…
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Court has ruled that Kabira Country Club Limited is not indebted to National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) and as thus the Shs147,269,805 Invoice issued in December 2017 was in error. High Court Judge Musa Ssekaana ruled that there cannot be any indebtedness when no water was consumed by Kabira Country club. The judge dismissed with costs NWSC’s counter-claim for Shs147, 260,805 as amount due and owing for the purported water consumed by Kabira Country Club. NWSC had slapped a Shs147,260,805 bill on Kabira Country Club claiming that she has consumed 37,623 units of water between 2013 to 2017. The…
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Court has ordered a businessman Joseph Sendagire and valuer Eddie Nsamba Gayiiya to jointly pay more than Shs448 million to KCB Bank Uganda Limited as recovery of loan fraudulently acquired and losses incurred. Justice David Wangutusi of the Commercial Division of the High Court ordered Sendagire and Gayiiya to pay to the bank Shs398,201,669 as the loan sum and Shs50 million as general damages. He ordered that the loan sum shall attract an interest of 20 percent per annum from May 2012 while the Shs50 million attracts 6 percent from date of judgment and that the duo shall pay legal…
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Hon. Justice David Wangutusi of the Commercial Division of the High Court has ordered Stanbic Bank to pay over UGX230 million to an Iganga businessman, Mr Isanga Dauda, for illegally refusing to credit his account with a loan that the bank had approved. Justice Wangutusi, despite objections by Stanbic, ruled that the loan facility was withdrawn in total breach since the complainant (Isanga) did not do any act the loan agreement had prohibited. “…there was a valid contract, the plaintiff did his part as required by the facility letter and the defendant (bank) failed to honour her part by failing…
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Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) Legal team has defeated a claim from Law firm, KTA Advocates, against UNRA for UGX489,321,000 for drafting Axle Load Regulations.In a High Court decision, KTA Advocates Vs UNRA Civil Suit No. 208 of 2020, it was declared that UNRA had drafted and developed the Vehicle Dimension and Load Control Regulations, 2017 in-house by the Directorate of Legal Services.Commenting after the High Court decision, the Director Legal Services, Mary Kuteesa said: “When Ms. Allen Kagina assumed office of the Executive Director, she received 90 invoices from 14 law firms totalling to UGX 17,624,358,926 for Legal Services…
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MTN Uganda has responded to a ruling by the High Court where the telecom giant lost a casein which it was challenging the payment of US$14, 140,030 (UGX50 billion) as license fees for a three-year transitional period from October 21, 2018 to June 30 2020. In a Tuesday 4th May 2021 statement, MTN says: “On April 24, 2021, MTN Uganda received a ruling from the Civil Division of the High Court of Uganda, (Miscellaneous Cause Number 240 of 2020), in relation to a transitional license fees of US$ 14,140,030 (United States Dollars Fourteen Million, One Hundred Forty Thousand, thirty only)…
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