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Criminal law RPAA 00418/2023/CA

UBUSHINJACYAHA vs DUKUZUMUREMYI

The Court of Appeal overturned a child-abandonment conviction, finding no legally proven parentage and insufficient evidence of the accused’s involvement.

  • Child abandonment
  • Parental responsibility
  • Criminal procedure
  • Burden of proof
  • Child-abandonment
  • Parental-responsibility
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Family law RS/INJUST/RC 00005/2022/HC/KIG

RUKUNDO v. MUHONGERWA

The High Court granted divorce after both spouses accepted that their marriage had irretrievably broken down, and it allocated child support and property division.

  • Divorce
  • Parental responsibility
  • Division of matrimonial property
  • Child maintenance
  • Child-maintenance
  • Parental-responsibility
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Family law RC 00026/2019/TGI/NYGE

ZIHINJISHI v. SIBOMANA

The court held that unmarried cohabitants had equal rights to property acquired during their union and ordered the assets to be divided equally.

  • Cohabitation
  • Division of property
  • Parental responsibility
  • Gender-based violence
  • Division-of-property
  • Parental-responsibility
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