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Nakasi v Sembatya and 2 Others (Civil Miscellaneous Application No. 38 of 2021)

High Court · [2021] UGHCLD 94 · 2021 Application Dismissed AI-generated summary ↓ Download Pin to watchlist Add to matter
Jurisdiction
Uganda
Case Type
Application for substitution as a party in an earlier miscellaneous application following the death of the original applicant
Decision
Application dismissed as moot; matters relating to the appeal referred to the Court of Appeal

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Holding

Application for substitution dismissed as moot. The court found that the orders sought were no longer of any use since a stay of execution had already been granted in the earlier application. The court declined to address the merits and directed that issues relating to the pending appeal should be dealt with by the Court of Appeal.

Outcome

Application dismissed as moot; matters relating to the appeal referred to the Court of Appeal

Facts

The late Twala Caroline had filed Civil Appeal No. 230 of 2019 and Miscellaneous Application No. 1442 of 2019 seeking a stay of execution. An interim stay had been granted pending determination of the main application. Twala Caroline died in 2018, three years before the present application was filed in January 2021. The applicant, Nakasi Grace, who identified herself as a daughter and beneficiary of the estate of the late Paul Mayanja Kakungano and Maria Nalubega, sought to be substituted as the applicant in MA No. 1442 of 2019. The first respondent opposed the application on grounds that the estate had duly appointed administrators, none of whom had brought the application, and that the applicant lacked locus standi. The third respondent was subsequently appointed as one of the administrators of the estate.

Issues

  1. Whether the applicant has locus standi to seek substitution in the earlier application when administrators of the estate have been appointed.
  2. Whether the application for substitution serves any useful purpose given that the relief sought in the earlier application (stay of execution) had already been granted.

Orders

  • Application dismissed.
  • Each side to meet its own costs.
  • Issues relating to the pending appeal (CACA No. 230 of 2019), including the locus of the applicant to take up the appeal following the death of Caroline Twala, to be dealt with by the Court of Appeal.

Rules and key headnotes

Civil Procedure — Substitution of Parties — Mootness — Application Dismissed Where Relief Already Granted
Where the sole purpose of an earlier application was to obtain a stay of execution pending appeal and that stay has already been granted, a subsequent application for substitution as a party in the earlier application serves no useful purpose and will be dismissed as moot.

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Nakasi_v_Sembatya_and_2_Others_(Civil_Miscellaneous_Application_No._38_of_2021)_[2021]_UGHCLD_94_(6_May_2021)
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