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The High Court had held that a memorandum of appeal was mandatory for commencement of an appeal. However, the Court in the present case clarified that this requirement had to be considered alongside the statutory requirement concerning the decree. The Court observed that the memorandum of appeal was necessary, but that the memorandum could not be considered in isolation from the requirement under Section 79(1) of the Civil Procedure Act concerning the decree or o

The court identified three factors favouring the applicant (the filing of a notice and memorandum of appeal, and the promptness of the application following service of the notice to show cause) against two factors weighing against her (i) the execution related solely to a taxed monetary sum which she had not appealed, removing any risk that the appeal itself would be rendered nugatory; and (ii) she had not adduced evidence that the respondents lacked the means to refund the t

The theme of the summit is "Roots Before Reach." The idea is simple. Build strong legal foundations first. Then take on new demands like legal tech, cross-border practice, and career growth.

The Uganda Law Society Secretariat launched Techfest 2026 on Thursday, 20 August 2026. This is the second edition of the rebranded Annual Law Conference. The launch followed an earlier virtual session on legal enrollment hurdles and anti-corruption frameworks. The physical event at the ULS Secretariat featured live music from the Banzura Band and remarks from ULS council members and legal tech leaders. This year's theme is "Digital Democracy: Advancing Access to Justice, Inno

Where an unlawful eviction occurs, the tenant may seek appropriate relief from court. In Bakampa Brian Baryaguma v Bbaaka Property Consultants (U) Ltd, Justice Teko Isaac Bonny recognised that an order compelling an applicant to vacate his home and forcefully evicting him without notice of termination of his tenancy may threaten the applicant’s right to protection from unlawful eviction under Section 45.

Following Aida Atiku v Centenary Rural Development Bank, the court treated the protection of banking credentials as the customer’s responsibility. Where a customer allows another person to obtain the information needed to access an account, that can count heavily against the customer.

The Court held that where a kibanja is held under the reversionary interest of the Kabaka of Buganda, the consent required for a transaction involving the kibanja must be obtained from the landowner through the Buganda Land Board, and not merely from the local Omutongole wa Kabaka.

The law touches your life every day. Your job, your business, your rights. Technology is changing how all of it works. This September, you get a front row seat to that change. The Uganda Law Society under the Radical New Bar is hosting its 2nd Annual Legal Tech Festival under the theme The theme this year is The Radical New Bar: Pioneering AI-Empowered Justice, Innovation, Ethics, Inclusion, and Sustainable Transformation. Here is why you should be part of it. It comes for yo

The Court found that the Plaintiff's authentication credentials, her phone and national ID, were compromised when she lost them on 6 February 2023. It found inconsistencies in her account of when she reported the loss to police and to her network providers, and noted evidence that she remained in contact with the person holding her phone after the date she claimed to have blocked her line. The Court held that whoever held her phone and ID was able to complete Flexipay registr

The Court also relied on section 92, which recognises the production to a company of sufficient evidence of probate or letters of administration as evidence of the grant. The Court observed that these statutory provisions establish an important distinction between ownership of the shares as an asset of the estate and membership of the company.

On the nature of the wrong, the Court held that where a public authority continues to withhold or delay execution of a valid appointment, this constitutes an ongoing administrative omission rather than a single completed act, so that limitation does not run until the authority's conduct explicitly indicates that no appointment will be honoured. It was noted, however, that deferred deployment is permissible only as a temporary and reasonable administrative expedient, and canno

The Court held that registration of title does not automatically extinguish every cause of action a third party may later assert over the same land, and that a plaint is only liable to rejection under Order 7 rule 11(d) of the Civil Procedure Rules where it discloses, on its own face, that the suit is time-barred. The Court drew a sharp distinction between “matrimonial property”, as defined in Julius Rwabinumi v Hope Bahimbisomwe (property acquired during the marriage, or agr

Cutting off the workaround does not fix the underlying shortage it emerged to solve. It restores the shortage and removes the income that came with addressing it. The Commission has the regulatory tools to design a proportionate framework. Its own director has publicly acknowledged that the market these operators serve is real and that the formal sector has failed to reach it. Therefore, the question is not whether UCC has the legal authority to enforce. It plainly does. The

The Court held that the criminal prosecution is being used as a tactical lever by the 3rd to 5th respondents as a means of unleashing the immense stress and cost of a criminal case to wear down an opponent, in order to force an advantage in a property ownership dispute, bypass the land registry, and intimidate the applicant. Criminal courts should not be converted into land registries or tribunals to determine the authenticity of rival land titles and competing historical roo

By capping paper based instrument while explicitly exempting electronic platforms. Bank of Uganda is using its regulatory power under the NPS Act Cap 59 to reshape how payment systems operate. Rather than freezing deposits, the Central Bank is redefining what counts as valid performance of banks debt obligation. It rules that digital transfers are legally equivalent to – and preferred over physical currency.

The Court addressed the practice of moonlighting, holding two jobs at once, as a distinct question from restraint of trade. Citing Bowers and Honeyball's Textbook on Labour Law, the Court noted that moonlighting is common and, in some circumstances, lawful, particularly where a contract carries no requirement of exclusivity and no harm to the primary employer is shown, as in Nova Plastics v Froggart, where an odd-job man was found not to be in breach for working for his emplo

Applying the three-part test in Asege Winnie v. Opportunity Bank (U) Ltd & Anor, the Court found the Plaintiff identifiable, the Defendants’ conduct deliberate, and the publication commercially motivated, sustaining the claim for misappropriation and passing off of personality. The Court further found that the Plaintiff’s name, profession, and stated opinion constituted personal data, unlawfully processed and republished to an audience beyond his own followers without his c

Justice Ssemogerere observed that Mr. Ntare had no independent interest in the criminal revision proceedings and that his actions were undertaken solely for financial gain and to obstruct justice. The Court further relied on Halsbury's Laws of England, defining criminal contempt as: "Criminal Contempt, consisting of words or acts which impede or interfere with the administration of justice, or which create a substantial risk that the course of justice will be seriously impede

The Court defined "retrenchment" as "the termination of employees for economic reasons, such as cost-cutting, restructuring, or downsizing, rather than for disciplinary actions," citing the ILO. It further noted that retrenchment is "not done as a punishment or disciplinary action, but it is intended to reduce surplus Labour or to address financial position of the business or company." The Court cited Justice BM Katureebe JSC (as he then was) in Samuel Lubega, Lawrence Kamule

Applying Section 9(1) of the Contracts Act, Cap. 284, and citing William Kasozi v. DFCU Bank Ltd, the Court reiterated that once a contract is validly executed, it creates reciprocal rights and obligations, and a signatory is bound by its terms absent fraud or misrepresentation. Breach of contract was defined, per Meridiana Africa Airlines (U) Ltd v. Avmax Spares (EA) Ltd, as a failure, without lawful excuse, to perform any promise forming all or part of a binding contract, i

Dear Friends and Partners, Parliament has passed the Protection of Sovereignty Bill, 2026. Presidential assent is now a matter of days. The Uganda Law Society — the Bar of this Republic — cannot watch this happen in silence. We are writing because Article 1 of our Constitution puts the matter beyond doubt: all power belongs to the people of Uganda. And yet a Bill bearing the name sovereignty now threatens the very people in whom that sovereignty rests — journalists, civil

Employers who unlawfully dismiss employees are generally liable to relieve or reimburse the employee for unsecured loans that were expected to be paid from the employee's monthly salary. Secured loans (e.g., mortgages) are distinct legal contracts and are not automatically cancelled. However, courts will not permit employers to switch the interest rate on such loans from a preferential staff rate to a higher commercial rate following an unfair dismissal, as this would consti

The Court characterised the removal of an employee's work tools as "a deliberately oppressive labour practice," treating it as strong evidence of breach of the implied duty of mutual trust and confidence, drawing on its own precedent in Granada Hotels Uganda Limited v Tayssiir Zereli and on the Supreme Court of Canada's reasoning in Potter v New Brunswick Legal Aid Services Commission, where cutting off an employee's work tools without disciplinary justification was found to

The Court held that the Claimant, recruited from Kaberamaido and dismissed after more than fifteen years of service, was entitled to repatriation under Section 39 of the Employment Act, but declined to enhance the CBA's fixed sum of UGX 400,000, holding that it could not rewrite the parties' bargain once they had agreed the CBA governed. Because the dismissal was found unjustified, the statutory bar on severance pay for employees summarily dismissed for gross misconduct did n