Bach & The Marginalized Worldwide Ltd v Ssalong Michael Lukwago (Civil Suit 615 of 2022)

Observed later treatment

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Holding

The High Court dismissed a civil suit concerning land where the plaintiff failed to effect service on the defendant and took no further action to prosecute the case after filing a plaint and an application for temporary injunction.

Outcome

Case dismissed for failure to prosecute

Facts

The plaintiff filed a plaint on 20 July 2022 concerning a land dispute. On 22 July 2022, the plaintiff filed an application for temporary injunction. The parties made an agreement to suspend activities on the suit land pending determination of the temporary injunction. However, no affidavit of service was filed showing that the defendant had been served with the plaint. The plaintiff thereafter took no action to proceed with the case.

Issues

1. Whether the case should be dismissed for failure to prosecute due to lack of proof of service on the defendant

Orders

• Case dismissed.

Cases citing this judgment (1)

How later Ugandan judgments in the Wakilii corpus have cited this case. Treatment labels come from Sequitur — Uganda’s citator — each backed by a verbatim span from the citing judgment, and are not an assertion that this case is, or is not, good law.

• Registered Trustees Of Mengo Hospital Limited v International Medical Link and Others (Miscellaneous Application No. 1544 of 2025)

The original judgment as reported. Read the original PDF before relying on any passage.