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Nambi Kasozi & Anor v Nakandi & 2 Ors (Miscellaneous Application No. 490 of 2019)

High Court · [2019] UGHCLD 27 · 2019 Application Dismissed AI-generated summary ↓ Download Pin to watchlist Add to matter
Jurisdiction
Uganda
Case Type
Application to discharge or vary temporary injunction affecting land purchased by applicants who were not parties to the original proceedings
Decision
Application dismissed for lack of competency and merit

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Holding

The High Court dismissed the application to discharge a temporary injunction on two grounds: first, the applicants lacked standing because they were not parties to the original proceedings from which the injunction arose; second, the injunction preceded the applicants' registration on the suit lands, negating their claim it was issued in error.

Outcome

Application dismissed for lack of competency and merit

Facts

The applicants sought to discharge a temporary injunction issued on 16 September 2015 affecting land comprised in Kyadondo Block 223 Plots 4971, 4972 and 4974. The injunction was granted in Miscellaneous Application No. 776 of 2015 arising from Civil Suit No. 433 of 2015. The applicants claimed they purchased the suit lands from Umar Katongole, one of the respondents in the original proceedings, before the injunction was issued. However, land registry search certificates showed the applicants were only registered as proprietors in May and June 2017, after the injunction was issued. The applicants were not parties to the original suit or the application in which the injunction was granted. The court found that a different order from Miscellaneous Application No. 933 of 2017 had been registered as an encumbrance on the land, and that this order had subsequently been set aside.

Issues

  1. Whether applicants who were not parties to the original proceedings could competently bring an application to discharge or vary a temporary injunction affecting land subsequently purchased by them.
  2. Whether the temporary injunction issued on 16 September 2015 should be discharged or varied in respect of the suit lands.

Orders

  • Application dismissed with costs to the 1st and 2nd Respondents.

Rules and key headnotes

Civil Procedure — Injunctions — Standing — Application to Discharge Temporary Injunction by Non-Parties
An application to discharge or vary a temporary injunction is incompetent where the applicants were not parties to the original proceedings from which the injunction arose.
Civil Procedure — Injunctions — Temporal Scope — Effect on Subsequent Purchasers
Where a temporary injunction precedes the registration of subsequent purchasers on the affected land, such purchasers cannot successfully claim the injunction was issued in error against them.

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Nambi_Kasozi_&_Anor_Vs_Nakandi_&_2_Ors_(Miscellaneous_Application_No._490_of_2019)_[2019]_UGHCLD_27_(13_June_2019)
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