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Civil law RS/INJUST/RC 00002/2024/SC

MUKAKADOGI vs UWIMANA

The Supreme Court reviewed a land dispute for injustice, held that the sold parcel was UPI 2/01/01/04/3894, and ordered correction of the land records.

  • Land registration
  • Correction of land records
  • Ownership disputes
  • Review of judgments for injustice
  • Evidentiary standards
  • Compensation of legal costs
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Civil procedure RCA 00007/2023/CA-RCA 00008/2023/CA

BONANE N’ABANDI vs MUKANSANGA N’ABANDI

The Court of Appeal partly allowed the appeal, letting construction continue but keeping the disputed land from being transferred pending the main case.

  • Urgent applications
  • Land transfer
  • Interlocutory relief
  • Injunctions
  • Ownership disputes
  • Urgent-applications
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Civil law RC00003/2022/CA

ndamage v higiro

The Court of Appeal dismissed a claim alleging conflicting judgments, holding that two final judgments on the property could be executed without contradiction.

  • Conflicting judgments
  • Ownership disputes
  • Fraudulent acquisition of title
  • Execution of judgments
  • Damages
  • Procedural law
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Civil procedure RLR V.3-2023

TWAGIRAYEZU ET AL. v TWAGIRAYEZU ET AL

The Supreme Court of Rwanda held that the Court of Appeal wrongly treated a plagiarised High Court judgment as a valid basis to bar a second appeal.

  • Judicial plagiarism
  • Appeals
  • Ownership disputes
  • Grounds for appeal
  • Jurisdiction
  • Judicial-plagiarism
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Family law RLR V.1-2022

UWIMANA v KAGITARE

The Supreme Court held that a divorced spouse may later claim undisclosed matrimonial property and found the disputed 3.6-hectare forest jointly owned.

  • Divorce
  • Matrimonial property division
  • Recognition of foreign judgments
  • Ownership disputes
  • Matrimonial-property
  • Property-disputes
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Criminal law RPA 0365/13/HC/NYA, RPA 0381/13/HC/NYA

UBUSHINJACYAHA v Dr BWIMBA R.

The High Court upheld Dr. Bwimba Pascal’s convictions for fraud and offering as collateral property not his own, but upheld his acquittal on forgery.

  • Fraud
  • Forgery
  • Criminal procedure
  • Ownership disputes
  • Criminal-law
  • Criminal-appeal
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