Legal Watch – Vol 4: A Bank Cannot Trasnfer The Full Mortgage Value Charged On A Parent Title To A Single Condominium Unit – HIGH COURT DECLARES.
Most condominium apartment blocks which are mushrooming everywhere in Uganda, are being driven by mortgage finance. However, the practice by some banks, of transferring the full mortgage charge from the parent title to each of the new condominium units has been a clog in the eye, which had to be removed.
Legal Watch – Vol 3: Certificate of Great Public Importance a Gateway to Third Appeals.
Professional indemnity insurance policies are intended to cover losses caused by professionals to their clients owing to the former’s negligence. However, the sanctity of such cover hangs in the balance following the High Court decision in Civil Appeal No. 0064/2024 Sanlam General Insurance Limited vs Finance Trust Bank, per Lady Justice Patricia Kahigi Asiimwe, who held that the bank had no locus standi to enforce the Professional Indemnity policy of its valuation surveyors, who issued false valuation reports, occasioning loss to it.
Legal Watch – Vol 2: The Protection of Sovereignity Bill – The First Agent of A Foreigner.
The title, “Regulating Foreign Influence Without Stifling Growth” which captioned the article of the learned Attorney General, published in the New Vision Newspaper on 21st April 2026, correctly captures the assumed legislative intent of the Ugandan Protection of Sovereignty Bill 2026. The article does better than the explanatory memorandum of the Bill by acknowledging that foreign influence is inevitable, adding that it cuts both ways and that it can be good or bad.
Legal Watch – Vol 1: Court of Appeal Upholds Goodwill as a Quantifiable Business Asset.
The concept of goodwill has been applied mainly in the field of intellectual property law, particularly in trademarks and passing off actions. For example, in Britania Allied Industries Ltd vs Aya Biscuits (U) Ltd HCT -00-cc-cs-024-2009, it was held that goodwill is the attractive force attached to the name, get up or logo which brings in customers and that the owner of good will has a property right that can be protected by an action in passing off.
What Does an Option to Purchase Mean?
The public discourse generated by the recent decision in Downtown Investments Limited Vs Muwema & Co Advocates, has caused more controversy than it has settled, especially with regard to the concept of Option to purchase (OTP).The controversy is borne out of the courts’ decision to acknowledge exercise of the OTP by the firm at plot 50 Windsor Crescent, while upholding a subsequent fictitious rent claim and declining Downtowns obligation to conclude the sale transaction.
Irregular Execution and Eviction at Kololo Offices.
On morning of the 6th day of March 2026 at about 0800hrs, officers of
Downtown Investments Ltd, flanked with a band of policemen from Kira
Road Police Station and unknown men, descended on our offices
situated at Plot 50 Windsor Crescent, Kololo and forcefully ejected us.
Frederick Muwema Vs Facebook Ireland Limited
We successfully worked with Lavelle Solicitors in Dublin Ireland to obtain a ‘’Norwich Pharmacal Order‘’ against Facebook for the disclosure of the identity and details of TVO (Tom Voltaire Okwalinga) an anonymous user of Facebook.
Uganda Vs Sheikh Siraje Kawooya
We represented 11 out of 14 accused persons in this case which was famously know as the ‘’Nostem Cleric case’’ or ‘’kamoga case‘’. They were initially jointly charged with crime against humanity, a charge we objected to causing the amendment of the indictment to drop the same. Five of our clients were acquitted and set free and we have lodged an appeal on behalf of the ones who were convicted.