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Ikinu v Osele and 18 Others (Miscellaneous Application 17 of 2022)

High Court · [2022] UGHCCD 313 · 2022 Application Granted AI-generated summary ↓ Download Pin to watchlist Add to matter
Jurisdiction
Uganda
Case Type
Application for temporary injunction arising from pending civil suit for land
Decision
Temporary injunction granted pending final determination of Civil Suit No. 29 of 2014

Observed later treatment

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Holding

The High Court granted a temporary injunction restraining the respondents from dealing with disputed land pending determination of the main suit. The applicant satisfied all three conditions for a temporary injunction: a prima facie case with probability of success based on an inheritance claim to registered land; irreparable injury from respondents' alleged hiring out, cultivation, and tree-cutting activities that would alter the land's topography; and balance of convenience favouring preservation of the status quo to protect the applicant's interests in the suit land.

Outcome

Temporary injunction granted pending final determination of Civil Suit No. 29 of 2014

Facts

The applicant sued the respondents for land titled in LRV 1186 Folio 17 at Omatenga, Kumi, Teso measuring approximately 191.49 hectares, which she claimed to have acquired by inheritance from her late father, Brigadier David Livingstone Ogwang, the registered proprietor. The first respondent was an administrator of the estate who was allegedly included without the applicant's consent and obtained a certificate of title in 1982. The hearing of the main suit (Civil Suit No. 29 of 2014) had concluded and was pending locus inspection. The applicant alleged that the respondents had embarked on hiring out the suit land to third parties, cultivating it, and cutting down trees with a view to altering the topography and face of the land before determination of the main suit.

Issues

  1. Whether the applicant is entitled to the grant of a temporary injunction.

Orders

  • A temporary injunction is hereby issued against the respondents, their agents, legal representatives, assignees, successors, servants or any other person(s) acting on their behalf restraining them from hiring out, selling, cutting down trees, cultivating, construction or dealing in any way with the suit land comprised in LRV 1186 Folio 17 land at Omatemg, Owogoria, Kumi District measuring approximately 191.46 hectares until the final determination of the main suit.

Rules and key headnotes

Civil Procedure — Temporary Injunctions — Conditions for Grant
The conditions for grant of a temporary injunction are: first, the applicant must show a prima facie case with a probability of success; second, the applicant might otherwise suffer irreparable injury which would not adequately be compensated by an award of damages; third, if the court is in doubt, it will decide the application on the balance of convenience.
Civil Procedure — Temporary Injunctions — Prima Facie Case
A prima facie case with a probability of success requires no more than that the court must be satisfied that the claim is not frivolous or vexatious; in other words, that there is a serious question to be tried. The applicant is required at this stage to show a prima facie case and a probability of success but not success itself.
Civil Procedure — Temporary Injunctions — Irreparable Injury
An interlocutory injunction will not normally be granted unless the applicant might otherwise suffer irreparable injury, which would not adequately be compensated by an award of damages. Irreparable injury is that which cannot be compensated by damages.
Civil Procedure — Temporary Injunctions — Balance of Convenience
When the court is in doubt on any of the principles for granting a temporary injunction, it will decide the application on the balance of convenience. If the risk of doing injustice is going to make the applicant suffer, then the balance of convenience is favourable to the applicant and the court would most likely be inclined to grant the application.
Civil Procedure — Temporary Injunctions — Purpose and Status Quo
The purpose of granting a temporary injunction is to preserve the matters in the status quo until the question to be investigated in the main suit is finally disposed of. The court has a duty to protect the interests of parties pending the disposal of the substantive suit.

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Ikinu v Osele and 18 Others (Miscellaneous Application 17 of 2022) [2022] UGHCCD 313 (18 August 2022)
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