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Micheal Wamala v Sebugulu Mukasa Teopista Nabukalu and Others [2024] UGHC 1302

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Jurisdiction
Uganda
Case Type
Application to review and set aside consent judgment entered in Civil Suit No. 303 of 2020
Decision
Application for review and setting aside of consent judgment dismissed for lack of locus standi

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Holding

An applicant seeking to review and set aside a consent judgment must prove he is an aggrieved person who has suffered a legal grievance arising from the decree or order. A third party who was not a party to the suit must establish a nexus between himself and the subject matter by producing documentary evidence such as letters of administration. The applicant failed to prove he was aggrieved as he produced no letters of administration connecting him to the deceased registered proprietor. Application dismissed.

Outcome

Application for review and setting aside of consent judgment dismissed for lack of locus standi

Facts

The 1st respondent filed Civil Suit No. 303 of 2022 against the 2nd and 3rd respondents claiming trespass and fraud over land comprised in Kyadondo Block 167 Plot 31. The suit concerned land originally owned by the late Lugolobi Mikaili and later administered by the late John Chrysostom Muwonge Mukasa and Edward Muwonge as joint tenants. On 17 September 2024, the parties entered a consent judgment allocating 8.8 acres to the 1st respondent and 7 acres to the 2nd respondent. The applicant, who was not a party to that suit, filed this application seeking to review and set aside the consent judgment. The applicant claimed he inherited 5 acres from his late father Kakeeto George William, who had received the land from his father Mikayili Lugolobi. The applicant had also filed a separate Civil Suit No. 496 of 2023 against the respondents claiming ownership of the same land. The applicant alleged the consent judgment was entered fraudulently to deprive him and his siblings of their inheritance.

Issues

  1. Whether the Consent Judgment entered on 17 September 2024 in Civil Suit No. 303 of 2022 can be reviewed and set aside.
  2. Whether the applicant is an aggrieved person with locus standi to apply for review of a consent judgment to which he was not a party.

Orders

  • Application dismissed.
  • Costs of the application awarded to the respondents.

Rules and key headnotes

Review of Judgment — Locus Standi — Aggrieved Person
For a third party to file an application for review of a consent judgment under Section 82 of the Civil Procedure Act and Order 46 of the Civil Procedure Rules, he must prove that he is an aggrieved person who has suffered a legal grievance arising from the decree or order, meaning a person against whom a decision has been pronounced which has wrongly deprived him of something or wrongfully affected his title.
Review of Judgment — Third Party Application — Proof of Interest
A third party applying to review a consent judgment must establish the nexus between himself and the subject matter by producing documentary evidence such as letters of administration in respect of the estate of the deceased registered proprietor to clothe himself with the right to present an application for review.
Review of Judgment — Third Party — Alternative Remedies
A third party who was not a party to proceedings resulting in a consent judgment and who has not established locus standi to apply for review is free to file an independent suit against whoever is on the land irrespective of the consent judgment.

Legislation cited (6)

Cases cited (14)

  • Re- Nakivubo Chemist (U) Ltd in the matter of Companies Act (1979) HCB
  • Kawdu versus Bever Ginning Co. Ltd & ors 1929 AIR Nag Par 185
  • Attorney General & Anor v James Mark Kamoga & Anor (Civil Appeal No. 8 of 2004)
  • Joweria Nanyonga Nakato versus Namavumba Fatuma
  • Ex parte Side Botham in RE Side Botham (1880) 14 Ch.D 458 at 465
  • FX Mukuuke v UEB (HCMA No. 98 of 2005)
  • Allibhai v Bukenya & Anor (Civil Appeal No. 56 of 1996)
  • Mohammed Allibhai v W.E. Bukenya and Another (Civil Appeal No. 56 of 1996)
  • George William Kateregga v Commissioner for Land Registration & 12 Ors (HCMA No. 347 of 2013)
  • Adonio Mutekanga (1970) EA 429
  • Jinja Municipal Council and Another v The Registered Trustees of the Indian Recreation Club and 2 Others (HCMA No. 66 of 2004)
  • Ladak Abdulla Mohammed Hussein v Isingoma Kakiiza and 2 Others (SCCA No. 8 of 1995)
  • Re-Nakivubo Chemists (U) Limited (1979) HCB 12
  • Tanitalia Ltd versus Mawa Handels An Stalt (1957) EA 215

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Micheal Wamala v Sebugulu Mukasa Teopista Nabukalu and Others 2024 UGHC 1302 (8 November 2024)
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