A national Identification Number does not expire and serves to identify a person; therefore, the expiry of a physical National Identity Card does not affect the identifiability of a surety.👇
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1. The State, as recent as last month, had an application in court seeking to hide identity of witnesses prior to commencement of trial. Why didn't the State make this application 2 years ago?
2. No accused person wants any trial.Accused persons want a fair trial. The right to a fair trial is what Dr Besigye has been complaining about for two years.
3. Why doesn't the President ask the military, DPP and Judiciary to stop violating Dr Besigye's right to a fair trial?
4. The right to a fair trial means the rules of the trial are evenly applied and the law is followed. The Trial Judge, so far, has ignored all provisions of the law which require him to release Dr Besigye on bail.
If the Judge cannot follow the law on such a simple matter, can he afford a fair trial on the weightier matter of criminal culpability? Absolutely No!
On 27th-March-2026, Justice Rubagumya set aside a Warrant of Arrest for failure to serve a Notice to Show Cause why execution should not issue ✍️Where a Decree Is more than one year old, service of the Notice Is mandatory even If the Judgment Debtor excluded themselves from the Hearing in the Original Suit.
✍Relying on Standard Chartered Bank Uganda Limited v Gian Singh Bhambra, HCMA No. 32 of 2022, the Court emphasized that a Notice to Show Cause affords a judgment debtor an opportunity to be heard before the Court's coercive powers are invoked to enforce a decree, thereby promoting the right to a fair hearing under Article 28 of the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda, 1995.
✍Court rejected the respondent's contention that service of the Notice to Show Cause was unnecessary because the applicants had excluded themselves from the hearing in the original suit.
✍Citing COMESA Technology (U) Limited v David G. Mushabe, H.C. Execution Civil Appeal No. 1906 of 2013, as approved in Buwembo Sarah Kakumba v Samuel Kiwanuka & Another, H.C. Execution Civil Appeal No. 1670 of 2013, the Court reiterated that a warrant of arrest must always be preceded by a Notice to Show Cause and that only upon default may a warrant issue without first hearing the judgment debtor. This requirement gives effect to the cardinal rule of natural justice that no person should be condemned unheard.
✍Accordingly, since it was undisputed that the applicants had not been served with a Notice to Show Cause before the warrant of arrest in execution dated 29 September 2025 was extracted, the Court held that the warrant was irregular and set it aside.
Legal Representation:
1. Applicants: M/s Kavuma Kabenge & Co. Advocates.
2.Respondent: M/s Lipton Advocates.
Case link; https://t.co/B5Z9k7v90t