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Edge Technologies Limited v KCB Bank Limited (Miscellaneous Application No. 310 of 2025)

High Court · [2025] UGHC 610 · 2025 Application Dismissed AI-generated summary ↓ Download Pin to watchlist Add to matter
Jurisdiction
Uganda
Case Type
Ex-parte application for certificate of urgency to hear interlocutory applications during court vacation
Decision
Application dismissed for lack of urgency

Observed later treatment

Cited — treatment unverified cited in 2 (treatment unverified) Sequitur — Uganda’s citator · Derived from citing cases in the Wakilii corpus — not an assertion that this case is good law.

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Holding

The court dismissed the application for a certificate of urgency. The applicant received notice of sale in September 2024 but only filed applications in July 2025, ten months later. The court held that urgency must not be self-created through an applicant's own delay or failure to act promptly. An applicant aware of alleged harm who takes no steps over a protracted period and then launches an urgent application is likely to have the application dismissed.

Outcome

Application dismissed for lack of urgency

Facts

The applicant took a multi-credit facility of UGX 6,000,000,000 from the respondent bank in December 2021, secured by mortgage over two properties. The facility was restructured in January 2022. The applicant defaulted, prompting the respondent to issue a notice of sale on 25 September 2024 to recover UGX 2,547,965,682. The respondent advertised the property for sale on 7 July 2025. The applicant filed the underlying suit on 8 July 2025 challenging the facility agreement's validity, and on 28 July 2025 filed two applications for temporary and interim injunctions. The applicant then sought a certificate of urgency to have those applications heard during court vacation, arguing that the impending sale would render the applications nugatory.

Issues

  1. Whether the applicant's application for a certificate of urgency should be granted to enable hearing of interlocutory applications during court vacation.
  2. Whether the urgency claimed by the applicant was self-created by delay in instituting proceedings.

Orders

  • Application for certificate of urgency dismissed.
  • No order as to costs.

Rules and key headnotes

Civil Procedure — Court Vacation — Certificate of Urgency — Requirements
A court will not grant a certificate of urgency as a matter of course. To merit consideration, the application should disclose exceptional circumstances of peculiar urgency.
Civil Procedure — Court Vacation — Certificate of Urgency — Self-Created Urgency
Urgency must not be self-created by an applicant. A self-created urgency covers situations where earlier action could have been taken by the applicant to seek a legal remedy. An applicant that is well aware of the harm he or she alleges to suffer, who takes no steps over a protracted period of time, and then launches an urgent application, is likely to have his or her application dismissed.
Civil Procedure — Court Vacation — Certificate of Urgency — Court's Duty to Apply Independent Judgment
In certifying a matter as urgent, the court is not supposed to take verbatim what the applicant says regarding perceived urgency but is required to apply its mind to the circumstances of the case and reach an independent judgment as to its urgency alongside the prima facie merits of the matter.
Civil Procedure — Court Vacation — Certificate of Urgency — Test for Urgency
What constitutes urgency is not only the imminent arrival of the day of reckoning; a matter is urgent if, at the time the need to act arises, the matter cannot wait. Urgency which stems from a deliberate or careless abstention from action until the deadline draws near is not the type of urgency contemplated by the rules.

Legislation cited (4)

Cases cited (4)

  • Kuvarega v Registrar General (1998) 1 ZLR 188
  • Dynamic Sisters Trading (Pty) Limited and Another v Nedbank Limited (081473/2023) [2023] ZAGPPHC 709
  • Sibongelenn Radebe and 16 others v Aurum Institute (C662/2023) [2023] ZALCCT 66
  • Collins t/a Waterkloof Farm v. Bernickow NO & another

Cases citing this judgment (2)

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Edge Technologies Limited v KCB Bank Limited (Miscellaneous Application No. 310 of 2025) [2025] UGHC 610 (1 August 2025)
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