Court clears way for televised league matches

Mar 18, 2015

THE rivalry between SC Villa and Express will on Friday kick start the live screening of the Azam Super League after the High Court gave the green light for FUFA to continue its association with Azam

By Norman Katende

 

THE rivalry between SC Villa and Express will on Friday kick start the live screening of the Azam Super League after the High Court gave the green light for FUFA to continue its association with Azam.

 

The ruling was in respect to a case filed by the Uganda Super League against the national soccer governing body, FUFA.

 

Justice Yasin Nyanzi dismissed the case with costs and brought to an end the tension and court room battles that have been dogging Uganda soccer for long.

 

The ruling also quashed the interim injunction that had been sought by USL to stop all dealings between FUFA and Azam, as they claimed that the new agreement was a breach of the already existing agreement between FUFA and SuperSport.

 

"FUFA can go ahead to televise the Azam Uganda Premier League matches after the interim court injunction was lifted," explained FUFA legal officer Alex Luganda.

 

This is the second ruling that has gone in favour of local governing federations with costs in the last one week.

 

Last week, court also ruled in favour of Uganda Athletics Federation with costs in a case where former athlete Julius Acon had challenged the elections that brought the current executive to power saying that it was flawed.

 

Acon, whose district had been locked out of the assembly because it had not participated in any national activity for the past four years and neither had they paid any membership or shown interest in joining the assembly had also been blocked from standing for president as per the constitution provisions that had stood for the last four years.

 

High court judge Justice Benjamin Kabiito on March 12 dismissed the case with costs in a ruling read before Counsel Patson Arinaitwe one of the two lawyers representing the respondents (UAF).

 

The court said that the petitioner's affidavit in support of the petition was fatally defective having been commissioned by an advocate who had been suspended by the Law Council, hence leaving it with no other supporting affidavit hence the petition was disposed at the preliminary stage.

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