Supreme court judge fails to tell judgement date

In the Supreme Court litigants who attended the reading of the full and reasoned judgment in which former premier Amama Mbabazi lost to President Museveni, were treated to laughter after the lead judge Jotham Tumwesigye got stuck about the date before asking a colleague who also didn’t know.

This happened at the tail end of the reading of the judgment when Justice Tumwesigye wanted to append the date on the voluminous judgment but he didn’t know the date, he asked his colleague Augustus Nshimye, but too didn’t know. It took his other colleague Justice Stella Arach Amoko who told him that it was August 26.

This all happened as the litigants were all in laughter.

 

At High Court, Criminal division

Justice Wilson Masalu Musene blasted a man who killed another over a debt of Shs2, 000.

The judge while sentencing Godfrey Nsereko to ten years in jail, said even if the deceased, Samuel Ntakiiza owed him Shs2, 000, after he worked for him, two wrongs of him killing the debtor would not make a right.

The judge said he would have sentenced him to life imprisonment but since he was apologetic and did not waste court’s time, he got a lighter punishment.