[2025] UGHC 241
The court held that the applicant failed to demonstrate any new and important matter or evidence that was not within his knowledge or could not have been produced with due diligence at the time the original order was made. The documents in question were availed to the applicant's counsel and adopted by the court,...
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- Citation
- [2025] UGHC 241
- Parties
- Applicant: Mbaguta Innocent Twebaze (Suing through his Lawful Attorney and Agent Kyeyune Ronald); Respondent: Nkugwa Rose; Respondent: Luyima Samuel Seith; Respondent: Bazze Fred; Respondent: The Commissioner Land Registration
- Court
- High Court of Uganda
- Jurisdiction
- Uganda
- Case Number
- MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATION NO. 0321 OF 2024
- Procedural Posture
- Miscellaneous Application / Ruling on Application for Review
- Outcome
- application dismissed with costs to the 4th respondent
- Judges
- Kazaarwe, J
- Legal Topics
- Review of Court Orders, Caveats on Land, Discovery of New Evidence, Procedural Fairness
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Parties
Mbaguta Innocent Twebaze (Suing through his Lawful Attorney and Agent Kyeyune Ronald)
Applicant
Nkugwa Rose
Respondent
Luyima Samuel Seith
Respondent
Bazze Fred
Respondent
The Commissioner Land Registration
Respondent
Procedural Posture
Miscellaneous Application / Ruling on Application for Review
Legal Issues
- 1 Whether the applicant demonstrated sufficient grounds for review of the court's decision under Section 82 of the Civil Procedure Act and Order 46 rules 1 and 2 of the Civil Procedure Rules.
- 2 Whether failure by counsel to peruse documents constitutes discovery of new and important matter or sufficient reason for review.
Ratio Decidendi
The court held that the applicant failed to demonstrate any new and important matter or evidence that was not within his knowledge or could not have been produced with due diligence at the time the original order was made. The documents in question were availed to the applicant's counsel and adopted by the court, and any failure to peruse them was not a sufficient ground for review. The court emphasized that review is not available merely because a party or their counsel failed to appreciate the contents of documents already on record. The applicant was advised that the appropriate remedy, if aggrieved by the caveat, was to file an ordinary suit for its removal. Consequently, the...
Court Disposition
application dismissed with costs to the 4th respondent
Orders
- The application for review is dismissed.
- Costs awarded to the 4th respondent.
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# THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA IN THE HIGH COURT OF UGANDA AT KAMPALA (LAND DIVISION) **MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATION NO. 0321 OF 2024** ARISING FROM MISC CAUSE NO.167 OF 2021
MBAGUTA INNOCENT TWEBAZE-----------------------------------
### **VERSUS**
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- 1. NKUGWA ROSE - 2. LUYIMA SAMUEL SEITH - BAZZE FRED - 4. THE COMMISIONER LAND REGISTRATION------------------------------------
## Before: Hon. Lady Justice Olive Kazaarwe Mukwaya
### **RULING**
This application is brought by Mr. Mbaguta Innocent Twebaze (Suing through his Lawful Attorney and Agent Kyeyune Ronald), seeking a review of this Court's decision and 20 Orders in Miscellaneous Cause No. 167 of 2021.
The 4<sup>th</sup> Respondent filed a reply to the Application and the other 3 Respondents did not appear at all.
By way of background, the application was heard ex parte.
My understanding of the grounds of this review application is that the Applicant is 25 aggrieved because he never had the opportunity to peruse the certified copies of documents from the Office of the Commissioner Land Registration.
These documents were submitted for Court's adoption by Mr. Lubulwa Peter, Counsel for the Applicant on the 26<sup>th</sup> of April, 2023. They were produced following a court order to the
Commissioner Land Registration to produce all the documents pertaining to the caveat 30 complained of by the Applicant.
It is therefore not possible that the Applicants whose Counsel availed those documents to this Court for adoption as part of the pleadings in support of his application could have failed to read and internalise their content.
5 Every fact contained therein cannot be construed as a new matter, with respect to the Applicant within the meaning of Section 82 of the Civil Procedure Act Cap 282 and Order 46 rules I and 2 of the Civil Procedure Rules S.l 282-'1. '82. Review.
### Any person considering himsetf or herseff aggrieved- (Emphasis added')
(a) by a decree or order from which an appeal is allowed by this Act, but from which no appeal has been Preferred; or
(b) by a decree or otder from which no appeal is allowed by this Act, may apply for <sup>a</sup> review of judgment to the coutt which passed the decree or made the order, and the court may make such order on the decree or order as it thinks fit-'
under Order 46 rule 1 and 2:
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1)Any person considering himself or herself aggieved- 15
(a) by a decree or order from which an appeal is allowed, but from which no appeal has been preferred; or
(b) by a decree or order from which no appeat is hereby allowed, and who frcm the discovery of new and impoftant maft\$ of evidence which, after the exercise of due ditigence, was not within his or her knowledge or could not be produced by him or her at the time when the decree was passed or the order made' or on account of some mistake or error apparent on the face of the record, orforany other sufficient reason. desires fo obtain a review of the decree passed or order made against him or her, may apply for a review of iudgment to the couft which passed the
decree or made the order.(Emphasis added.) 25
> The failure by Counselforthe Applicant to adequately peruse the stack of documents and appreciate the details contained, therein including the fact that the 1"1 Respondent' Ms
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Nkugwa Rose died on the 5th of December, 202'1 is not a sufficient reason to alter the decision of this Court.
<sup>I</sup>reiterate that the Applicant has the option of filing an ordinary suit to have the caveat on the suit land removed.
ln conclusion, I find that this Application for Review has no merit and I dismiss it with costs to the 4th Respondent.
Olive Kazaarwe Mukwaya JUDGE Delivered on the 21"1January 2025 Uploaded on ECCMIS on the 2d May 2025
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