Rwanda Case Law

KANZAYIRE v. NYIRABIZIMANA N’UNDI

Court

Supreme Court

Case number

RCAA 0070/12/CS

Applications to intervene against Supreme Court judgments are inadmissible, as neither the law in force at the time of filing nor subsequent law provides for such a procedure. The only exceptions to the finality of Supreme Court judgments are revision on new grounds or correction of errors, not intervention by third parties.

Source excerpt

• Finality of supreme court judgments
• Intervention in proceedings
• Appellate procedure

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LETA Y’U RWANDA v. KARANGWA N’ABANDI

Court

Supreme Court

Case number

RADA 0001/09/CS

The Supreme Court held that a motion to challenge its own judgment was inadmissible, because Article 84 bars reopening Supreme Court decisions except by revision based on new facts.

• Finality of supreme court judgments
• Procedural bars
• Standing to challenge judgments
• Finality-of-judgments
• Procedural-bars
• Supreme-court-review

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KHALID v. AHMED ET AL

Court

Supreme Court

Case number

RC 0002/09/CS

The Supreme Court of Rwanda held that tierce opposition is not admissible against its final judgments, and dismissed Khalid Foz’s application.

• Tierce opposition
• Finality of supreme court judgments
• Extraordinary remedies
• Jurisdiction of supreme court
• Tierce-opposition
• Supreme-court-finality

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