Supreme Court's civil appeals session kicks off today

KAMPALA - The Supreme Court of Uganda is scheduled to hold a four-day civil appeals session, in which 19 cases will be heard, starting today. The session will run until March 27, 2025.

The court will be presided over by Justices Percy Night Tuhaise, Mike Chibita, Elizabeth Musoke, Stephen Musota, Madrama Izama Christopher, Dr. Catherine Bamugemereire, and Monica Kalyegira Mugenyi.

Some of the high-profile cases include an appeal filed by the administrators of the estate of Sir Edward Muteesa II against Dr Muhammed Kasasa Buwule and the Attorney General over a 640-acre piece of land at Mutungo in Nakawa Division, Kampala. The land is located in Kyadondo Block 237, Plots 178 and 388.

The administrators of the estate are Dorothy Nasolo Nalinnya, Sarah Nalinnya Kagere, and Prince David Wassajja.

Court documents indicate that in 1966, Muteesa II, who had been exiled in Britain, gave his sister, Princess Victoria Mpologoma, powers of attorney to act on his behalf.

In 1968, the land was subsequently sold to Masaka tycoon Benjamin Kwemalamala Kintu by Mpologoma.

Kintu later sold the land to Lake View Properties Ltd, which mortgaged the property with Barclays Bank (now Absa) in 1972 but defaulted. Buwule paid the debt, and the bank subsequently gave him the titles.

The transfer to Buwule is dated November 6, 1979.