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By Our Reporter
The 22nd Annual Judges Conference under the theme, “Discharging the Mandate of the Judiciary towards a Modern, Professional and Effective Judiciary”, started on Monday in Kampala, with the judiciary revealing that more cases still remain pending in courts across the country as a report that tracked the disposal of cases in the financial year 2018/2019 reveals.
The report done by the Judiciary for the financial year 2018/2019, 145 cases were pending in the Supreme Court, 7,497 in the Court of Appeal, 76,779 in the High Court, 61,039 in the Chief Magistrates Courts, 21,383 in the Magistrate Grade 1 Courts and 4,900 cases in the Magistrate Grade 2 Courts, all totalling to 171,743 pending cases.
Chief Magistrate Court registered 105,322, completed 97,553, Magistrate Grade 1 registered – 47,309 completed 43,294, Magistrate Grade 2 registered completed 3,297 cases for the period under review.
There were 5,287 pending commercial cases in the High Court, 13,517 criminal cases, 21,671 land cases, 111 International crimes, 5,737 family related cases and 2,033 executions and bailiffs cases. Disposal rate of commercial cases stood at 26 percent during the period under review.
Court of Appeal registered 826 criminal cases and it disposed of 477 cases. It registered 887 civil cases and disposed of 687 cases which amounted to a 17 percent total disposal rate.
The Supreme Court disposed of 25 percent of civil cases and 56 percent of criminal cases, leaving 145 cases as pending during the period under review.
Supreme court case disposal rate was 32 percent, Court of Appeal/Constitutional Court (17 percent), High Court (26 percent), Chief Magistrates Court ( 62 percent), Magistrate Grade 1 ( 67 percent ) Magistrate Grade 2 (40 percent)
The period under review shows Supreme Court of Uganda currently had 12 Justices, up from 11 in 2018. The Court of Appeal/ Constitutional Court currently has 17 Justices, up from 15 in 2018. Five are on Special Assignments. The High Court currently has 61 Justices. Four are on special assignments.
