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Family law RS/INJUST/RC 00002/2018/SC

UWIMANA v KAGITARE

The Supreme Court held that a divorced spouse may sue to share undisclosed matrimonial property discovered later, and found the disputed forest co-owned.

  • Divorce
  • Matrimonial property
  • Standing to sue
  • Enforcement of foreign judgments
  • Damages
  • Matrimonial-property
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Family law RLR V.1-2022

UWIMANA v KAGITARE

The Supreme Court held that a former spouse may claim undisclosed matrimonial property discovered after divorce and upheld Uwimana’s claim to shared ownership of the disputed forest.

  • Divorce
  • Matrimonial property
  • Standing to sue
  • Enforcement of foreign judgments
  • Damages
  • Family-law
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Family law RLR V.1-2023

UWIMANA v KAGITARE

The Supreme Court held that a divorced spouse may sue to share unrevealed matrimonial property discovered later. It quashed the prior judgment and upheld Uwimana’s claim to the disputed forest.

  • Divorce
  • Matrimonial property
  • Standing to sue
  • Enforcement of foreign judgments
  • Damages
  • Matrimonial-property
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Family law RLR V.1 -2023

UWIMANA v KAGITARE

The Supreme Court held that a former spouse may sue to include undisclosed matrimonial property discovered after divorce for sharing.

  • Divorce
  • Matrimonial property
  • Standing to sue
  • Enforcement of foreign judgments
  • Evidence assessment
  • Family-law
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Commercial law RLR V.3-2018

KCB BANK UGANDA LTD v. KIIZA & LOUISE (KL) LTD_kn

The Supreme Court held that Rwandan courts had jurisdiction over a Ugandan bank’s claim because the defendants lived in Rwanda and the collateral was in Rwanda.

  • Jurisdiction
  • Foreign contracts
  • Security interests
  • Enforcement of foreign judgments
  • Foreign-contracts
  • Security-interests
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Civil procedure RLR V.1-2018

WALTER RAFFO v. MUNYAMPIRWA_en

The Supreme Court held that a foreign death certificate used only as evidence does not need exequatur in Rwanda, and overruled the admissibility objection.

  • Exequatur of foreign documents
  • Admissibility of foreign evidence
  • Shareholder disputes
  • Enforcement of foreign judgments
  • Exequatur
  • Foreign-evidence
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Family law RLR V.1 - 2015

RE DOREBABA

The High Court granted exequatur for a DRC marriage certificate, finding the foreign authentic deed met Rwanda’s legal requirements and was not contrary to public order.

  • Exequatur
  • Enforcement of foreign judgments
  • Marriage certificate
  • Public order
  • Authenticity of foreign documents
  • Foreign-authentic-deeds
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