Kimbugwe Abdu Juuko v Lumaama Henry Sunday and Another (Miscellaneous Application No. 758 of 2024)

Observed later treatment

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Holding

The High Court declined to determine an application to set aside a consent judgment on the ground that the application was improperly placed before a judge when the consent had been endorsed by the Assistant Registrar. The court ordered that the application be placed before the Assistant Registrar for determination in accordance with proper procedure.

Outcome

Application dismissed on procedural grounds and referred to Assistant Registrar for proper handling

Facts

The applicant was the 2nd defendant in Civil Suit No. 900 of 2023, a land dispute concerning a kibanja at Masajja. The 2nd respondent, as administratrix of an estate, sued the applicant and 1st respondent for recovery of the suit kibanja, alleging a fraudulent sale. The applicant claimed to have purchased the land from the 1st respondent. On 26 February 2024, the 1st and 2nd respondents entered into a consent before the Assistant Registrar dividing the kibanja between them. The applicant, who was not party to the consent, filed an application to set aside the consent judgment on the ground that it affected his proprietary interest without affording him a right to be heard. The applicant alleged he had purchased the suit land and had sold portions to third parties. The consent and the alleged sale agreement were not attached to the application.

Issues

1. Whether the consent judgment in Civil Suit No. 900 of 2023 should be set aside.
2. Whether the application to set aside a consent judgment should be heard by the judge or referred back to the Assistant Registrar who endorsed the consent.

Orders

• The application for setting aside the consent should be placed before the Assistant Registrar.
• Each party to bear their own costs.

Rules and key headnotes

Legislation cited (6)

• Civil Procedure Act s.82
• Civil Procedure Act s.98
• Judicature Act s.33
• Civil Procedure Rules O.52 r.1
• Civil Procedure Rules O.52 r.2
• Civil Procedure Rules O.52 r.3

Cases cited (2)

• Bisaso Nathan v Orwin Tumuhirwe (High Court Miscellaneous Application No. 8 of 2021)
• Katerega Glazio and Another v Kamya Kevina Nandaula and Others (Civil Suit No. 114 of 2015)

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.

• Nakibinge Charles Balimunamba v Kamya Kevina Nandaula and Another (Miscellaneous Application No. 1875 of 2024)

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