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Civil procedure RCOM 00005/2025/CA

AFRICA PANTHERS RESOURCES Ltd v. MUNSAD MINERALS Ltd

The Court of Appeal held that an urgent application filed by a respondent in an appeal was inadmissible because the respondent had no substantive claim before the court.

  • Urgent applications
  • Admissibility
  • Provisional measures
  • Appeals
  • Urgent-applications
  • Provisional-measures
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Administrative law RADA 00001/2022/HC/NYZ

Re NDIZEYE

The High Court upheld dismissal of Ndizeye Martin Patrick’s urgent application, holding that the dispute lacked the urgency required for summary relief.

  • Urgent applications
  • Provisional measures
  • Cooperative governance
  • Standing to sue
  • Procedural requirements
  • Urgent-applications
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Civil procedure RCA 00001/2022/CA

GUKORA NI NGOMBWA LTD v DUSHIMIMANA

The Court of Appeal dismissed an urgent appeal challenging removal of a caveat, holding that provisional measures are not res judicata and may be revisited for new circumstances.

  • Provisional measures
  • Land registration
  • Caveat
  • Urgent applications
  • Authority of res judicata
  • Execution of judgments
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Civil procedure RCOM 00001/2022/CA

GAHIGA Marie Thérèse v GAHIGA Ange

The Court of Appeal provisionally stayed execution of a foreign judgment previously granted exequatur, finding urgency and that the underlying judgment was still being litigated abroad.

  • Exequatur
  • Provisional measures
  • Urgency in execution
  • Recognition of foreign judgments
  • Provisional-measures
  • Stay-of-execution
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Civil procedure RCA 00003/2021/CA

Re NZANIRA GASHEREBUKA

The Court of Appeal held that provisional Belgian family orders could not be enforced in Rwanda, because exequatur requires a final foreign judgment.

  • Exequatur of foreign judgments
  • Child custody
  • Provisional measures
  • Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments
  • Exequatur
  • Foreign-judgment-enforcement
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Civil procedure RCA00001/2020/CA

MURENZI v MUTABAZI

The Court of Appeal held that urgent interlocutory orders are provisional and may be revisited, and that attachment of property must be proportionate to claimed damages.

  • Urgent applications
  • Provisional measures
  • Attachment of property
  • Damages
  • Abuse of rights
  • Civil-procedure
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Company law RLR V.2-2019

MUREKATETE v. RWANDA REVENUE AUTHORITY (RRA)

The Supreme Court held that a caveat on a shareholder’s personal property for company tax debts was unlawful without a court ruling on personal liability.

  • Piercing the corporate veil
  • Shareholder liability
  • Provisional measures
  • Counterclaims
  • Tax enforcement
  • Piercing-the-corporate-veil
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Company law RLR V.2-2019

MUREKATETE v. IKIGO CY’IMISORO N’AMAHÔRO ( RRA)

The Supreme Court held that a shareholder’s property could not be provisionally attached for a company’s tax debt without a prior court finding of personal liability.

  • Director and shareholder liability
  • Lifting the corporate veil
  • Tax recovery
  • Provisional measures
  • Procedural admissibility
  • Shareholder-liability
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