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Byarugaba Mugagga Deo and Others v Ovia Byarugaba Kasheegu and Others [2026] UGRSB 30

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Jurisdiction
Uganda
Case Type
Application to the Registrar of Companies for rectification of the register (expungement of a director's appointment and restoration of a struck-off company), together with a cross-application challenging the applicants' membership
Decision
Both the application and the cross-application dismissed for misjoinder and for want of cogent evidence to warrant rectification of the register; no order as to costs.

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Holding

An application sought rectification of Nob View Hotel Limited's register and restoration of Nalibyaru Investments Limited. The Registrar held that joining two distinct companies with separate causes of action was misjoinder, rendering the application incompetent. On the merits, the resolution appointing the second respondent as director was valid under Regulation 100 of Table A, which permits a continuing director to appoint an additional director to restore quorum where a co-director is incapacitated. The resolutions and transfer forms admitting the applicants as members were also validly filed. Rectification under Regulation 8 requires cogent evidence of a statutory defect, which was not shown. Both the application and cross-application were dismissed, with no order as to costs.

Outcome

Both the application and the cross-application dismissed for misjoinder and for want of cogent evidence to warrant rectification of the register; no order as to costs.

Facts

Nob View Hotel Limited, incorporated in 1993, had two directors: Nalis Byarugaba and the first respondent, Ovia Byarugaba Kasheegu. The applicants and respondents are all shareholders. In July 2022, while Nalis Byarugaba was ill, the first respondent passed a board resolution appointing the second respondent, Caroline Egesa, as a director under Article 100 of Table A to maintain business continuity. Nalis Byarugaba died fourteen days later. The applicants challenged the resolution, contending no valid board meeting occurred. They also complained that Nalibyaru Investments Limited, in which all parties are shareholders, had been struck off the register without notice, faulting the second respondent as company secretary. The first respondent filed a cross-application alleging the applicants' shareholding was acquired illegally through resolutions and transfer forms procured in 2012 to 2014 by the late Nalis Byarugaba without proper meetings, offers, valuation, or consideration. The applicants sought expungement of the impugned resolution, restoration of Nalibyaru, convening of general meetings, inspection, and refund of monies; the cross-applicant sought expungement of the documents admitting the applicants as members.

Issues

  1. Whether commencing a single matter in respect of two different companies (Nob View Hotel Limited and Nalibyaru Investments Limited) is misconceived, incompetent, or barred in law.
  2. Whether the Applicants have a cause of action against the Respondents.
  3. Whether the cross-application/counter-claim by the first Respondent/Cross-Applicant is misconceived, incompetent, and barred in law.
  4. Whether the contested resolutions and transfer documents were validly obtained and filed.
  5. What remedies, if any, are available to the parties.

Orders

  • The Application is dismissed.
  • The Cross-Application is dismissed.
  • No order as to costs.

Rules and key headnotes

Civil Procedure — Joinder of Causes of Action — Distinct Companies with Separate Causes
Distinct causes of action affecting separate companies that do not arise from the same transaction or series of transactions and do not raise common questions of law or fact cannot be joined in a single application, and such misjoinder renders the proceedings incompetent even where the parties are the same.
Company Law — Cause of Action — Standing of a Registered Member to Seek Rectification
A person recorded on the company file as a member enjoys, prima facie, the right and standing to move the Registrar for rectification of the register under Regulations 8 and 20 of the Companies (Powers of the Registrar) Regulations, notwithstanding a pending challenge to the validity of that membership.
Company Law — Appointment of Directors — Continuing Director's Power to Restore Quorum under Table A
Where the number of directors falls below the quorum fixed by the articles owing to a co-director's incapacity, a continuing director may, under Regulation 100 of Table A, validly appoint an additional director for the limited purpose of restoring the required quorum.
Company Law — Rectification of Register — Limits of the Registrar's Expungement Power under Regulation 8
The Registrar's power to expunge a registered document under Regulation 8 is limited and quasi-judicial; it may be exercised only on cogent evidence establishing one of the prescribed statutory grounds, and the party seeking expungement bears the evidential burden, mere assertion or suspicion being insufficient.
Evidence — Cross-Examination — Discretion in Affidavit and Statutory-Declaration Proceedings
In proceedings conducted on written statements, such as those before the Registrar of Companies, cross-examination of the maker of a statutory declaration is not an absolute right but lies within the discretion of the presiding officer, to be exercised in accordance with the requirements of fairness and the needs of the case.

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Byarugaba Mugagga Deo and Others v Ovia Byarugaba Kasheegu and Others [2026] UGRSB 30 (8 May 2026)
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