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Tigo Stephen v. Uganda (Criminal Appeal 8 of 2009)

Citation: [2011] UGSC 7 Court: Supreme Court Decided: 10 May 2011 Jurisdiction: Uganda
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Held that life imprisonment means imprisonment for a convict's natural life; the Prisons Act's twenty-year deeming applies only to calculating remission.

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