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By Gad Masereka Busitema University has launched a search committee consisting of five people who are going to help the university find the right people to...
By Gad Masereka After recently obtaining an English appellate court order requiring dfcu Bank, its former management, and directors to respond to allegations that they engaged...
Businessman Hamis Kiggundu alias Ham has petitioned the Constitutional Court to reverse the Supreme Court’s decision in the multibillion dollar case against Diamond Trust Bank, claiming that it was flawed and illegal under the law. On June 13th, 2023, the Supreme Court, Uganda’s highest court, ordered that Civil Suit No. 43 of 2020 be remitted to the High Court for retrial before another judge, and upheld the legitimacy and enforceability of syndicated loan contracts, among other things. In accordance with Constitutional Petition No. 18 of 2023, dated July 7, 2023, Ham and his two corporations, Ham Enterprises Ltd. and Kiggs International (U) Ltd., are now requesting that the Constitutional Court order the Supreme Court to retry Supreme Court Civil Appeal (SCCA) No. 13/2021 as well as two other related applications. According to Ham’s lawyer, Fred Muwema of Muwema and Co. Advocates, the Supreme Court decision was arbitrary and “in complete violation of the Uganda code of judicial conduct and the Petitioners’ inviolable rights to be heard.” He claims he was subjected to “an infringement of his constitutional right to a fair hearing” as a result of this. Ham also questions how the Judgement was dated and signed by the Chief Justice on June 6, 2023, but later signed by other panel justices on June 13, 2023, and delivered on the same date, despite the Chief Justice stating that other Coram members were in full agreement with it 7 days before their actual signing; and referred the case to the High Court for retrial under a new Judge after not hearing two pending applications and dismissing the substantial issue of illegality. As a result, he requests that the Constitutional Court order the Supreme Court to “expunge the proceedings and judgement in CivilAppeal No. 13/2021 from the public records of Uganda” and retry the full Supreme Court Civil Appeal (SCCA) No. 13/2021. Facts and the case’s history Ham through his companies obtained a loan from DTB-U...
By Muhwezi Allan All scheduled games for the ongoing Ankole Districts Football Tournament have been postponed by the High Court in Mbarara following controversies that rocked...
By Owen B Alton Kasese: The Team Leader of Presidential Initiative on Peace, Security and Development in Rwenzori region and Eastern DR Congo, Christopher Taban Kibanzanga...
The Mulago Specialised Women and Neonatal Hospital is operating at less than 50 per cent of its established staff structure, members of the Committee on Health...
By Our Reporter Benon Kunywana and Godfrey Kyalimpa both managers at Middle East Consultants, a labour exporting company have been convicted by the International Crimes Division...
At least 40 civilians died in attacks by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province over the course of three days last week,...
There was cinema as Wasswa Biriggwa, the National Chairman of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), escaped by jumping over a fence at the party’s offices...
A hospital official said that two people were killed on Wednesday after anti-government demonstrations in Kenya, and the interior ministry confirmed that over 300 additional people...
