[2025] UGHC 248
The application was dismissed because the applicants failed to take any step to prosecute the matter for almost 18 months after the court indicated its docket was full. The court exercised its discretion under the Civil Procedure Rules to dismiss the application for want of prosecution, emphasizing the need for...
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- Citation
- [2025] UGHC 248
- Parties
- Applicant: Sekyewa Rashid Khamis; Applicant: Nabasirye Ruth Mayambala; Respondent: Nabumba Florence Nalong
- Court
- High Court of Uganda
- Jurisdiction
- Uganda
- Case Number
- Mlsc. APPLICATION NO 3109 OF 2023
- Procedural Posture
- Miscellaneous Application / Ruling
- Outcome
- application dismissed for want of prosecution
- Judges
- Kazaarwe, J
- Legal Topics
- Dismissal for Want of Prosecution, Case Management Delay
- Source Language
- en
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Parties
Sekyewa Rashid Khamis
Applicant
Nabasirye Ruth Mayambala
Applicant
Nabumba Florence Nalong
Respondent
Procedural Posture
Miscellaneous Application / Ruling
Legal Issues
- 1 Whether the application should be dismissed for want of prosecution.
Ratio Decidendi
The application was dismissed because the applicants failed to take any step to prosecute the matter for almost 18 months after the court indicated its docket was full. The court exercised its discretion under the Civil Procedure Rules to dismiss the application for want of prosecution, emphasizing the need for parties to be diligent in pursuing their cases.
Court Disposition
application dismissed for want of prosecution
Orders
- The application is dismissed for want of prosecution.
Full Case Text
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## THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA
## IN THE HIGH COURT OF UGANDA AT KAMPALA
### (LAND DlVlSloN)
# Mlsc. APPLICATION NO 3109 0F 2023
## (ARISING FROM CIVIL SUIT NO. 587 OF 2023)
# 1. SEKYEWA RASHID KHAMIS
2. NABASIRYE RUTH MAYAMBALA-------------------------'---APPLICANTS
-vs-
NABUMBA FLORENCE NALONG -------------------------RESPONDENT
Before: Hon. Lady Justice Olive Kazaarwe Mukwaya
#### 15
### RULING
Thjs file was placed before me on the 18th October 2023 and I indicated that my docket was full for the next 6 months. No step has been taken by the applicant to seek another date for almost 18 months.
2A
<sup>I</sup>hereby dismiss this application for want of prosecution
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<sup>25</sup> Olive Kazaarwe Mukwaya
Judge
301h April 2025
Delivered by email to Counsel for the Applicant and the Respondent