Kabaka of Buganda v Nakibirango Bernadette and Another (Miscellaneous Application No. 130 of 2025)

Observed later treatment

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Holding

Application for review of judgment stayed pending final determination of Constitutional Petition No. 84 of 2023 concerning Succession Registers. The estate of the late Lazaro Nsi-egulamirambo falls under Succession Registers and is affected by recommendations of a Joint Working Committee currently subject to constitutional challenge. The Constitutional Court's decision will bind this Court and affect determination of the review application.

Outcome

Application stayed pending determination of Constitutional Petition No. 84 of 2023

Facts

The Applicant sought review of a judgment in Civil Suit No. 20 of 2022, which had ordered reinstatement of a certificate of title for land comprised in Kibuga Block 16 Plot 1078. The original suit was brought by administrators of the estate of Lazaro Nsi-egulamirambo (deceased 1919) against the Commissioner Land Registration, challenging cancellation of the title. The Commissioner had cancelled the title on grounds it formed part of Official Mailo belonging to the Kabaka of Buganda. The estate falls under historical Succession Registers maintained by the Lukiiko (Buganda Parliament) from 1912-1966, later transferred to the Administrator General. A Joint Working Committee in 2020-2023 investigated challenges with Succession Registers and recommended no further grants be issued on such estates. These recommendations are now subject to Constitutional Petition No. 84 of 2023.

Issues

1. Whether the Applicant is an aggrieved person entitled to seek review of the judgment in Civil Suit No. 20 of 2022.
2. Whether the application for review should be stayed pending determination of a related Constitutional Petition.

Orders

• The instant application, MA 130 of 2025, arising from Civil Suit No. 20 of 2022, and all pending matters related to the Estate of the late Lazaro Nsi-egulamirambo, are hereby stayed until the final determination of Constitutional Petition No. 84 of 2023 and any Constitutional appeal arising therefrom.

Rules and key headnotes

Legislation cited (5)

• Civil Procedure Act Cap 282 s.82
• Judicature Act Cap 16 s.37
• Civil Procedure Rules Order 46 rule 1
• Civil Procedure Rules Order 52 rules 1 & 2
• Succession Act

Cases cited (1)

• Lufunya Derrick and Another v Attorney General and Others (Constitutional Petition No. 84 of 2023)

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.

• Carolyne Nyarupero Atono and 2 Others v Chemonics International Inc (Labour Dispute Miscellaneous Application No.130 of 2025)

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