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Ssekabaziga v Matovu & 5 Others (Miscellaneous Application 230 of 2024)

High Court · [2025] UGHC 155 · 2025 Application Dismissed AI-generated summary ↓ Download Pin to watchlist Add to matter
Jurisdiction
Uganda
Case Type
Application for extension of time to file a taxation appeal against the Deputy Registrar's taxation of costs
Decision
Application dismissed with costs; consequential taxation appeal also dismissed with costs

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Holding

The court dismissed the application for extension of time to file a taxation appeal. Where parties enter into a consent order during execution proceedings that replaces an earlier taxation order, the consent order supersedes the taxation order and the parties cannot thereafter appeal against the taxation. The applicant who participated in executing the consent order on 19 September 2024 had no sufficient reason to justify the delay in appealing or applying to set aside the consent order.

Outcome

Application dismissed with costs; consequential taxation appeal also dismissed with costs

Facts

The respondents obtained a temporary injunction against the applicant before the Chief Magistrate's Court of Kiboga. The applicant's appeal to the High Court was dismissed with costs. The Deputy Registrar taxed the respondents' bill of costs ex parte at Shs.5,990,000/= in Taxation Application No. 04 of 2024. The applicant sought review, but by consent the parties agreed the taxed costs would be maintained and execution would proceed. During execution proceedings on 19 September 2024, both parties entered into a consent execution agreement reducing the amount to Shs.5,000,000/= in total settlement of the costs. The applicant thereafter filed a taxation appeal (No. 229 of 2024) seeking to set aside the Deputy Registrar's earlier taxation order, and brought this application seeking validation of that appeal filed out of time.

Issues

  1. Whether the applicant should be granted an extension of time to file a taxation appeal against costs taxed at Shs.5,990,000/= when the parties subsequently entered into a consent order agreeing to settle the costs at Shs.5,000,000/=.
  2. Whether a consent order on costs supersedes an earlier taxation order and renders it non-appealable.

Orders

  • Application for extension of time dismissed with costs.
  • Miscellaneous Application No. 229 of 2024 (the taxation appeal filed out of time without leave) dismissed with costs.

Rules and key headnotes

Civil Procedure — Taxation of Costs — Appeal — Consent Order Superseding Earlier Taxation
Where parties enter into a consent order during execution proceedings that varies or settles the costs awarded in an earlier taxation order, the consent order replaces and supersedes the taxation order, and there are no longer any enforceable orders from the taxation that can be appealed.
Civil Procedure — Extension of Time — Sufficient Cause — Consent Order
A party who voluntarily executes a consent order settling costs cannot subsequently appeal against the earlier taxation order without sufficient justification for the delay in challenging the consent itself.

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Ssekabaziga v Matovu & 5 Others (Miscellaneous Application 230 of 2024) [2025] UGHC 155 (17 March 2025)
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