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Green Wish Express Travellers Investment Ltd and Another v Balloon Ventures Ltd and Another (Miscellaneous Application No. 135 of 2025)

High Court · [2025] UGHC 1078 · 2025 Application Granted AI-generated summary ↓ Download Pin to watchlist Add to matter
Jurisdiction
Uganda
Case Type
Application for consolidation of two pending civil suits arising from the same investment agreement
Decision
Application granted; two civil suits consolidated and fixed for mention

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Holding

The court granted the application for consolidation. Both suits arose from the same investment agreement dated 11 November 2021 and involved common questions of law and fact, including breach of contract, the same monetary advance, and the same motor vehicle. Although the respondents argued that the suits involved different parties and causes of action, the court held that the issues could be conveniently determined within a single suit. Consolidation would avoid multiplicity of suits and serve the interests of justice.

Outcome

Application granted; two civil suits consolidated and fixed for mention

Facts

The applicants instituted Civil Suit No. 9 of 2022 on 18 March 2022 against the respondents for punitive damages, general damages and costs for fraud, misrepresentation and breach of contract. During the pendency of that suit, the respondents filed Civil Suit No. 3 of 2023 on 15 December 2023. Both suits arose from an investment agreement dated 11 November 2021 between Green Wish Express Travellers Investment Ltd and Balloon Ventures Ltd, under which Balloon Ventures agreed to advance UGX 90,000,000 (UGX 17,000,000 in cash and UGX 73,000,000 as the value of a motor vehicle). The applicants sought consolidation on the ground that both suits raised the same questions of law and fact. The respondents opposed, arguing that the suits had different causes of action, involved different parties, and that Civil Suit No. 03 of 2023 included a claim on a personal guarantee not present in Civil Suit No. 09 of 2022.

Issues

  1. Whether Civil Suit No. 9 of 2022 and Civil Suit No. 03 of 2023 should be consolidated and heard together.
  2. Whether the two suits raise the same or similar questions of law and fact.
  3. Whether consolidation would prejudice any of the parties.

Orders

  • Civil Suit No. 09 of 2022 and Civil Suit No. 03 of 2023 are consolidated.
  • The consolidated suits are fixed for mention on 27 October 2025.
  • Costs of the application shall be in the cause.

Rules and key headnotes

Civil Procedure — Consolidation of Suits — Test for Consolidation
Consolidation of suits should be ordered where common questions of law or fact exist in actions having sufficient importance in proportion to the rest of each action to render it desirable that the whole of the matters should be disposed of at the same time. Consolidation should not be ordered where there are deep differences between the claims and defences in each action.
Civil Procedure — Consolidation of Suits — Same Subject Matter
Where two suits arise from the same subject matter or transaction and involve common questions of law and fact, consolidation may be ordered even where the plaintiffs or defendants are different, provided the issues can be conveniently determined within a single suit.
Civil Procedure — Consolidation of Suits — Purpose
The main purpose of consolidation is to save costs, time and effort, and to make the conduct of several actions more convenient by treating them as one action. Consolidation is a process by which two or more causes or matters are by order of the court combined or united and treated as one cause or matter.
Civil Procedure — Multiplicity of Suits — Avoidance
It is a cardinal principle in judicial proceedings that courts must try as much as possible to avoid multiplicity of suits. Where a counterclaim has been dismissed for being filed out of time, the proper course is to pursue available remedies to have the counterclaim accepted, not to institute a fresh suit.

Legislation cited (5)

Cases cited (7)

  • Prince Balera George & 71 Others V. Attorney General and National Forestry Authority and 153 others
  • Mohan Kiwanuka v Asha Chand (Supreme Court Civil Appeal No. 14 of 2002)
  • Stumberg & Anor v Potgieter (1970) EA 323
  • Prince Balera & 7 Others v Attorney General & 153 Ors (High Court Miscellaneous Application No. 176 of 2017)
  • Visare Uganda Limited v Muwema & Company Advocates and Solicitors (Miscellaneous Application No. 826 and 827 of 2023)
  • S. C. Jain v Bindeshwari Devi 67 (1997) DLT 189
  • Mohan Musisi Kiwanuka v Asha Chand (Supreme Court Civil Appeal No. 14 of 2002)

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Green Wish Express Travellers Investment Ltd and Another v Balloon Ventures Ltd and Another (Miscellaneous Application No. 135 of 2025) [2025] UGHC 1078 (15 October 2025)
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