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Section 5: Courts to try all civil suits unless barred

Civil Procedure Act · Uganda

Provision: Section 5 Consolidation: 2023-12-31 Currency check: 2026-08-04 2000 Revised Edition: Cap. 71 2023 Revised Edition: Cap. 282

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Section 5 of Uganda’s Civil Procedure Act is the governing provision headed “Courts to try all civil suits unless barred”. This page reproduces the available consolidated text dated 2023-12-31. Read the official text below for every qualification and exception. The judgments listed here are verified as citing the section; Wakilii does not infer their treatment. Displayed consolidation dated 2023-12-31; matched to ULII's latest reliably enumerated expression on 2026-08-04. Read the exact consolidated text or go to verified citing cases.

Last reviewed 2026-08-17.

Verified Current. Displayed consolidation dated 2023-12-31; matched to ULII's latest reliably enumerated expression on 2026-08-04. This is not a claim about commencement or current legal force.

Official statutory text

Section 5 — Courts to try all civil suits unless barred

Any court shall subject to the provisions herein contained, have jurisdiction to try all suits of a civil nature excepting suits of which its cognisance is either expressly or impliedly barred

Public-domain Ugandan legislation reproduced from a consolidation sourced through ULII and Laws.Africa. Displayed expression: 2023-12-31. View this provision in the full Act.

Judgments verified as citing section 5

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