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Aneno Karyn v Attorney General (Miscellaneous Application 400 of 2024)

High Court · [2024] UGHCCD 86 · 2024 Application Granted AI-generated summary ↓ Download Pin to watchlist Add to matter
Jurisdiction
Uganda
Case Type
Application for interim injunction restraining disciplinary proceedings pending judicial review challenge to interdiction
Decision
Interim injunction granted restraining disciplinary proceedings pending determination of substantive applications

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Holding

Held that an interim injunction should issue where a substantive application for judicial review is pending, there is a real threat of disciplinary proceedings, and the purpose is to preserve the right to be heard. The court found that the applicant had been interdicted and faced a disciplinary hearing despite challenging the interdiction by judicial review. The respondent's claim that a hearing had already occurred was contradicted by evidence showing only the Permanent Secretary had been summoned. On a balance of probabilities, sufficient grounds existed to preserve the status quo pending determination of the judicial review and temporary injunction applications.

Outcome

Interim injunction granted restraining disciplinary proceedings pending determination of substantive applications

Facts

The applicant, a Senior Legal Officer at the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives, was on 4 April 2024 asked to vacate her office to create space for a new Minister. While packing her belongings, the Permanent Secretary arrived with an armed bodyguard and ordered her to leave within one hour. An altercation ensued in which the applicant alleged she was slapped by the PS, roughed up and dragged out by the PS's bodyguard, and her documents thrown into the corridor. The applicant reported the matter to police and obtained a medical report confirming bodily harm. The PS subsequently interdicted the applicant and initiated disciplinary proceedings. The applicant challenged the interdiction by way of judicial review and filed applications for a temporary injunction and this interim order to restrain further disciplinary action pending determination of those applications.

Issues

  1. Whether the application discloses sufficient grounds for grant of an interim injunction order?

Orders

  • An interim injunction order doth issue restraining the Respondent, its servants or agents from conducting any disciplinary proceedings against the Applicant pending the hearing and determination of the main application.
  • The costs of the application shall be in the cause.

Rules and key headnotes

Civil Procedure — Interim Injunctions — Test for Grant
For an application for interim relief to be granted, the court must be satisfied that a substantive application is pending and that there is a serious threat of execution before the hearing of the pending substantive application.
Civil Procedure — Interim Injunctions — Purpose and Scope
The purpose of granting an interim injunction is to preserve the status quo and the right to be heard on the substantive application. At this stage, the court should not delve into the merits of the substantive application.
Civil Procedure — Interim Injunctions — Requirements under Order 50 rule 3A(3)
Under Order 50 rule 3A(3) of the Civil Procedure Rules as amended 2019, the court shall only consider the hearing of an application for interim relief where there is a pending substantive application with a likelihood of success.
Administrative Law — Interdiction — Interim Relief Pending Judicial Review
Where an employee has been interdicted and is subject to a pending disciplinary hearing, and has filed an application for judicial review challenging the lawfulness of the interdiction together with an application for a temporary injunction, an interim order restraining disciplinary proceedings will issue to preserve the status quo and the right to be heard on the substantive applications.

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Aneno Karyn v Attorney General (Miscellaneous Application 400 of 2024) [2024] UGHCCD 86 (17 May 2024)
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