UGANDA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY, MUKONO

FAMILY LAW 1
READING LIST AND COURSE OUTLINE

Course Title Family Law I

Course Code BLAW 1205 Credit Hours 8 hours weekly

Lecturers Kulabako Ruth 0784780152 Tutorial Nakiirya Florence

Assistants 0706632446
Timothy Kajja - 0706132756
Ivan Twongyeirwe
0705587709

Course Content
This Course focuses on the family as a Unit in Society. The meaning, establishment,
sustenance and dissolution of the family as an institution, are explored in great detail as
the student is exposed to issues that portray the legal understanding of a family. As this
course particularly addresses the family in the African context, an attempt is made to
cover various forms of families in the true African context, Uganda in particular. It
should be noted however, that Uganda being a common law country, most of the
principles within the domestic relations law are borrowed from English law and married
with our cultural principles.

Course objectives
- To acquaint students with Family matters, functions of a family, the right to marry
and its consequences, nullity, dissolution and separation.

- To introduce students to an appreciation of a divergence of principles in the

family as an institution on the basis of settings and affiliations, such as the
Cultural setting, Muslim faiths, Christian faiths, Hindus, etc.

Key resource material

1. Bromley’s Family Law 7th or 8th ed., Bromley & Lowe (Butterworths, Ldn)
2. The Family, Law & Society, 7 Ed. [Hogget &Pearl].
3. The Family Law and Society — Cases and Materials 3 Ed.
4. Weeding The Millet Field: Women’s grassroots justice in Uganda - Jennipher
Okumu Wengi

Statutes
1. Constitution of the Republic of Uganda 1995
2. Marriage Act Cap 25I
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 3. Divorce Act Cap 249
4. Marriage of Africans Act Cap 253
5. Customary Marriage (Registration) Act, Cap. 248.
6. Marriage and Divorce of Mohammedans Act Cap 252
7. Hindu Marriage and Divorce Act Cap 250
8. Judicature Act Cap. 13
9. Evidence Act Cap.6
10. Children Act Cap. 59
11. Magistrate Courts’ Act Cap. 16
12. Law Revision (Miscellaneous) Act 2023.

International Instruments
1. The African Charter on Human and People’s Rights, 1981, Articles 18, 22, 27, 29.
2. UN Convention on Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women
1979
3. The United Nations Charter, art. 1(3), 55, 56.
4. International Convention on Rights of a Child

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 Course content
Week Topic Required readings Assignments
1 Introduction to family  Bromley & Lowe: Bromely’s  What is a family?
law family law 7th, 8th edition
 What are the types of
- Nature and scope Hogget and Pearl
family
of family law  Jonathan Herring : Family law,
6th Edition  Advantages and
 Proffessor Kusum: Family law I disadvantages of a
, 3rd Edition Lexis Nexis Series family
(2011)  Relevance of family law
in Uganda and current
 Article 31 of the Constitution trends
 Penal Code Act- Section 145 on
unnatural offences  Cohabitation-is it’s a
form of marriage? How
Cases can legal rights and
1. Harrogate Borough Council v interests be protected by
Sampson [I986] 2 FLR 91 cohabiting parties
2. Fitzpatrick Sterling Housing  Single parenthood
Formation of a family Association [1997] 4 of ALLER families
- Promise to marry 991
3. Widman V Wall Pall (1891) 2  Transgender issues/
- Breach of a QB 534 same sex families
promise to marry 4. Larok v Obwoya [1970] HCB
41
5. Fender v Mildmay [I937] 3  What amounts to a
ALLER 402 promise marry?
6. Spiers v Hunt [1980] I KB 720
Remedies for breach of promise  Under what
to marry circumstance may one
sue for breach of a
7. Fender V Mildmay (1937) 3 promise to marry?
ALL ER 402
- Remedies for
8. Shaw V Shaw (1954) 2 ALL ER
breach of a  What are the exceptions
638
promise to marry to the rule that a
9. Jefferson V Paskel (1916) 1 KB
57 contract contrary to
10. Shaw v Fitzgerald [1992] I FLR public policy is
35 unenforceable?
11. Mossop v Mossop [1988] 2
ALLER 202  What are the remedies
12. Shaw v Shaw [I 954] 2 ALLER for breach of a promise
638 to marry?
13. Moate v Moate [I948] 2 AlIer
486
 Are such contracts
14. Cohen v Sellar [1926] 1 KB 536 enforceable in the
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 15. Jacobs v Davies [1917] 2 KB modern Uganda?
932
16. Jeffreys V Luck [1922] 153
LTJQ 139
17. Samson v Samson [1960] 1
ALLER 653
18. Lamet v Hyman [1961] 3
ALLER 933
19. Short v Stone (1846) 8 QB. 358

2 Marriage Article 31 of the Constitution of  What is marriage?

Uganda  What are the types of
- Definition of a
marriage  Marriage Act Cap 25I marriages recognized in
 Divorce Act Cap 249 Uganda?
- Types of marriages  Marriage of Africans Act Cap  What is the nature of
in Uganda 253 each marriage/
- Capacity to marry  Customary Marriage characteristics?
(Registration) Act, Cap. 248.  Who may marry?
-
 Marriage and Divorce of  What is the law on child
Mohammedans Act Cap 252 marriages in Uganda?
 Hindu Marriage and Divorce
Act Cap 250
Definition of marriage
1. Hyde v Hyde (1866) LRIP &d
130
2. R v Amkeyo [1917] 7 EAPLR
14
3. M v M [1991] NSFLR 377
4. R V Tan [1983] QB 1053
5. Nachimson v Nachimson [I930]
P 217
6. Corbett v Corbett [1970] 2
ALLER 33
Capacity to marry
1. Corbett v Corbett [1970]
ALLER 33
2. Pugh v Pugh [1951] 2 ALLER
680
3. Chad v Chard 1955] 3 ALLER
721
4. Manchanda v Manchanda
[1995] 2 FLR 590

3 Types of marriages
Marriage under the
marriage Act
- Church marriage
- Civil Marriage
 Marriage Act Cap 251  What are the marriages
 Monogamous under the marriage Act?
1. Hyde v Hyde  What are the salient
2. Ayoob v Ayoob (1967) EA 416 features of the
3. Chard v Chard [1955] 3 ALLER marriages under the
721 marriage Act?
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Nature of marriages 4. R v Amkeyo  What is the effect of the
under the Act 5. Nachimson v Nachimson preliminaries/ pre
- Monogamous  Marriage must be for life requisites of marriage to
union 1. Rattansey v Rattansey [1960] the validity of a
- Marriage must be EA 81 marriage?
for life  What is the effect of a
marriage contracted
 Parent’s Consent under the marriage Act
Robert v Robert 20 (2) K.L.R.6 on a subsequent
 Prohibited degrees of customary marriage?
Consanguinity
R v Chadwick (1847) 11 QB 173
Preliminaries to the
Cheni v Cheni (1965) P. 85 at 98 - 9
marriage
R v Brighton Inhabitants (1861) 1 B &
- Age
S 447
- Consent
Bruno Kiwuwa v Serunkuma &
- Prohibited degrees
Namazzi High Court Civil suit No.52
of consanguinity
OF 2006
- Notice of marriage
 Consent
Constitution article 31
Harrod v Harrod (1854) 1 K & 14
Parajoic v Parajoic [1959) 1 ALLER I
Fanuel Lemama 19 (2) KLR 48
 Notice
Section 17 Marriage Act
Samson Barin [1960) EA 532

Celebration of Marriage  Marriage Act Cap 251  Where is a church/civil

Under the Marriage Act marriage conducted?
 Licensed place Are there exceptions to
Mohadervan v Maherdervan [1962)3 the venue?
ALLER 1108  What time can the
 Celebration by licensed marriage be conducted?
minister  What is the effect if a
1. A v B [1932) 14 KLR 109 marriage is not
2. R v Mills (1844) 10 CL & Fin celebrated as per the
534 provisions of the
3. Gerris v Yagoub (1992) 1 FLR Marriage Act?
854  What is the effect of
 Open doors non- registration of a
 Specified hours marriage?
 Witnesses
 Must not be under false
names
1. Fendall v Goldsmit (1877)2 PD
263. 264
2. Chipehase v Chipchase [1941) 2
ALLER 560
3. Dancer v Dancer [1948) 2
ALLER 731. [1949) P. 147.

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  Registration of the marriage
1. Mugisha v Kakuru

Domicile Divorce Act cap 249  What is domicile

 Cases  What is the relevance of
2. Thornhill v Thornhill [1965] EA the law on domicile in
268 family law?
3. Droogenbroeeh v Coolen &  What are the types of
Gibbons 1992 (iv) KALR 16 Domicile?
4. Gamthumayor v Gumthumayor 
[I959] EA 204
5. Gordon v Gordon [1965] EA 85
6. Aslandis v Aslandis [1967] EA
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7. Tatiana Adebeyi v Adebeyi
[1990-91] KALR 36
8. Wagaba v Wagaba (1993) 1
KALR 99
9. Donggo v Donggo
10. Field v Field [1964] EA 43
11. Musinga v Musinga [1993]
VIKALR l60
12. Verveake v Smith [1983] 1 Ac
45
13. Ogden v Ogden [1908]1 P. 101.
14. Kiyingi case

Potentially polygamous  Marriage of Africans Act Cap  What are the

marriages 253 preliminaries of
 Customary Customary Marriage (Registration) Act, customary marriages?
marriages Cap. 248  What is the position of
Cases bride wealth?
1. Alai v Uganda [I963] EA 596
2. R v Amkeyo (1916) EALR II
3. Hussain v Hussain [1982] 3
ALLER 369
4. Baindail v Baindail [1946] P.
122
5. Nakiyingi v Merekizadeki
[1978] HCB 107
6. Lule Salongo v Nakulata 1982
Miscellaneous appeal
7. Kajubi v Kabali
8. Male v R
9. Uganda v Kato & Ors

 Celebration of the customary

marriage
1. Aiiya v Aiiya High Court
Divorce Cause No. 8 of 1973
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 2. Bruno Kiwuwa v Serunkuma &
Namazzi, High Court Civil Suit
No. 52 of 2006
3. Case V Ruguru [1970] EA 55
4. MIFUMI case on bride wealth
5. Kimani v Gikanga (1965) E.A
735
6. Wongo V Dominico Manano
[1958] EA 124
7. Ebulu V Ekwangu [1982] HCB
43
8. Tifu Lukwago v Samwiri
Mudde Kizza & Justine
Nabitaka, Supreme Court Civil
Appeal No. 13 of 1996
9. Magwi Kimito v Gebeno
Werema (1985) TLR 132
10. Virginia Edith Wamboi Otieno
v Joash ochieng Ongo & Omolo
Sirange (1982-88) IKAR 1049
Witnesses
1. Wenge v Manano [I958] EA 24
2. Kemitungo v Katuramu

Celebration of  Part II of the Customary

customary marriage by Marriage (Registration Act)
non -Ugandans Relevant articles
1. E. N. Mayambala: Changing the
Terms of the Debate: Polygamy
and the Rights of Women in
Uganda; E.A. Journal of Peace
& Human Rights 1997 pg. 200-
2. L. Tibatemwa -Ekirikubinza:
Multiple Partnering. Gender
Relations and Violence of
Women in Uganda. E.A.
Journal of Peace & Human
Rights 1998 pg. 15,
3. S. Tamale Law Reform &
Women Rights in Uganda; EA.
Journal of Peace & Human
Rights 1993 pg. 164-194.
4. J.S. Read: The Law of Husband
& Wife in East Africa in
Integration of Customary &
Modern Legal System 1971 Pg.
395—409.
5. Prof. J.M.N. Kakooza: The
application of customary law in
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Journal; U.L.R.C, Vol. 1, No.1,
2003 at p.31

Islamic marriages Statutory Provisions  What are Islamic

- Definition marriages?
- Preliminaries of 1. Marriage and Divorce of  Effect of no consent
Islamic marriages Mohammedans Act cap 252  What are the
- Potentially 2. Marriage of Africans Act cap preliminaries of Islamic
polygamous 253 marriages?
3. Customary Marriage 
(Registration) Act
4. Constitution of Republic of
Uganda, 1995
Articles
- General Principles of Islamic family
law by Muhamud Sewaya – Lecture
Presented to the Faculty of Law
Uganda Christian University Mukono-
15th July 2010
- J.N.D. Anderson. Islamic in Africa.
Problems of today and tomorrow, in
Changing Law in developing countries.
(1963)
- Jamal L. Nasir: The status of Women
under Islamic Law 2nd Ed. Graham &
Trotman Publishers 1964
- NT Coulson: Islamic Family Law:
“Progress in Pakistan” in Changing law
in developing countries. (1963)
- J.M. Rodwell, The Koran Translation
(Dent & Sons) (1974)

 Definition
1. Ayoob v Ayoob [1967] CA 416
2. Rattensey v Rattensey [1960]
CA 81
3. Alai v Uganda [1967] EA 596
4. RS v SS [1969] EA 229
 Preliminaries
Payment of Dawar - Quaran 4:4
 Offer and acceptance
AIi Omar Oikba v Aziza Ackba [1957]
EA 675
Soundness of mind
Prohibited degrees
Quaran 4:23
 Potentially polygamous
1. Lila Jhuna Mawji v The Queen
2. Alai v Uganda [1967] EA 596
3. Quaran 4:3,4. 129
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5. El Busajdj [1963] EA 248

Void and voidable Legislation  What are void

marriages  Under the marriage Act marriages?
 Art. 31 Constitution  What makes a marriage
 See. S.13 Divorce Act void?
 See. S. 35 Marriage Act.  What is the effect of a
Grounds for void marriage void marriage?
 What is meant by a
1. De Reneville v De Reneville decree of nullity?
[1948] 2 ALLER 56
2. Re Roberts [1978] 3 ALLER
225
3. Whiston V Whiston [1995] 3
WLR 405
4. Hains v Jeffell (1896)1 LD
Raym 68
Lack of Capacity
1. Corbett v Corbett
2. Dryden v Dryden [1973]3 AIler
526 at 542

Formal Defects
1. A V. B [1932] 14 KLR 109
2. Mahadervan v Mahadervan  What is a voidabale
[1962] 3 ALLER 1108 marriage?
3. M v M [1956]3 ALLER  What makes a marriage
Voidable marriages voidable?
1. Adebeyi v Adenji (1990) KLR  What is the effect of a
36 voidable marriage?
2. K V K [1960] EA 717  Approbation of voidable
3. Valier v Valier [1925] 133 LT marriages
830
4. Pararojeic v Parajeic [1959] 1
ALLER I
5. Moss v Moss [1897] P 631
6. Cooper v Cooper [1959]1
W.L.R 1021
7. Varuiek v Smith [1982] 2
ALLER 144
8. Kaur v Singh [1972] ALLER
292
9. K (Otherwise P) v K [1944)21
K.L.R 23
10. Napier v Napier [1915] P. 184
11. Baxter v Baxter [1948] AC 274
12. Dredge v Dredge [1947] 1
ALLER 29
13. Morgan v Morgan [1959] 1
ALLER 539
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 14. Scot v Scot [1959] 1 ALLER
531
15. S v S [1954] 3 ALLER 736
16. Nash v Nash [1940] 1 ALLER
206 at 209
Mental incapacity
17. Bennet v Bennet [1969] 1
ALLER 539
18. Estate of Park [1953] 2 ALLER
1411

False Names
1. K v K 1960 EA 717
2. Ray v Ray (1939)16 KLR 29

Cohabitation
1. Fitzpatrick v Sterling Housing
Association [1997] 4 ALLER
991
2. Christine Male & Anor. V Mary
Namanda [1982] HCB 140
3. Jawe v Public Trustee HCCS
No. 2010 of 1976
Cohabitation
1. Fitzpatrick v Sterling Housing
Association [1997] 4 ALLER
991
2. Christine Male & Anor. V Mary
Namanda [1982] HCB 140
3. Jawe v Public Trustee HCCS
No. 2010 of 1976

Legal effects of marriage Fiction of oneness  What are the legal

- Fiction of oneness 1. Sesawo v Uganda [1972] HCB effects of marriage?
- Presumption of 123  What is consortium and
legitimacy 2. Uganda v Kato and others what remedies are
- Consortium [1976] HCB 204 available for loss of
- Matrimonial 3. Laila Jhina Mawji v The Queen consortium?
property (1956) 23 EACA 609  What is meant by
- Right to use 4. Balfour v Balfour [1919] 2KB matrimonial property?
husband’s name 571  What amounts to
- Martial 5. I V I [1971] E.A 278 matrimonial property?
confidences 6. Midland Bank Trust Co. v  How is matrimonial
- Maintenance Green [1979] 2 ALLER 193 property distributed?
Right to use husband’s name
1. Cowley v Cowley [1900] P. 305
2. Fendal v Goldsmid [1877] 2
P.D. 263
3. Du Boulay v Du BouIay (1869)

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 LR2 PC 430
4. Burghargz v Switzerland [1995]
Fam. Law 71
Presumption of legitimacy
1. Preston-Jones V Preston Jones
[1956] 1 ALLER 124
2. Gardner v Gardner [1877] 2
DPP Cos 723
3. Ettenfield v Ettenfleld [1940] 1
ALLER 293
4. Re Health [1945] Ch. 417
5. Re Overbury [1955] ch 122

Marital Confidences
1. Alai v Uganda [I967] EA 596
2. Sesawo v Uganda [1972] HCB
120
3. R v Amkeyo [1917] 7
E.A.P.L.R 14.
4. Argull v Argyll [1965] 1
ALLER 611
5. Stephens v Auery [1988] Ch.
449
6. Coco v AN Clark [1969] RPC
41

Conjugal Rights/Consortium
1. Divorce Act Section 21
2. Amos Senyakazana v A.G
(1984) H.C.B 48
3. R. v MiLLER [1954]2 ALLER
529
4. R V Clarke [1949] 2 ALLER
448
5. Brodie v Brodie[19l7] P271
6. R. v Jackson [1896] I QB 671.
7. Nanda v Nanda [1967] 3
ALLER 401
8. Lee v Lee Divorce Cause No. 4
of 1964
9. Powel v Powel [1922] P. 278
10. R v Reid (1973) ALLER 1350
11. Morgan v Morgan [1959] 1
ALLER 539
12. R v R [1991] 4 ALLER 481
13. R v Roberts [1980] Crim. LR
188
14. R v Steele [1976] Craff Rep. 22
15. Behrens v Bertram Mills Circus
[1957]1 ALLER 583
16. Donoghue v Stevenson (1932)
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 A.C 562
17. Gottleib v Gleiser (1958)1 Q.B
18. McNeil v Johnstone [1958] 3
ALLER 16
19. R v Leggat (1852) 12QB 781
20. Place v Searle [1932] 2 ALLER
KB 497
21. Huxtale v Huxtable (1899)68
LIP 83
22. Santos v Santos [1972] 2
ALLER 246
23. R v Creamer [1919] IKB 564
24. Best v Samuel fox & Anor
[1952] 2 ALLER 394
25. Orme v Orme (1824) 162 E.R
335

Maintanance
1. Bromlev’s Family Law pages
586-587
2. -Provision at a matrimonial
home
3. Semasaka v Nyiransabimana
4. Malinson v Malinson [1961]
EA 185
5. Bredie v Bredie [1917] P. 271
6. Morgan v Morgan [1959]1
ALLER 539
7. Dunn v Dunn [1948] 2 ALLER
822
8. Stewart v Stewart [1947]2
ALLER 813
9. King v King (1941)2 ALLER
103
10. Gleinster v Gleinster [1945]1
ALLER 513
11. Eliot v Eliot [1956]1 ALLER
122
12. Munro v Munro [1950]1
ALLER 832
13. National Provincial Bank v
Ainsworth (1965] 2 ALLER
472

Enforcement Of Right To
Maintanance
1. Nanyuki Trading Stores v
Peterson (1948)15 EACA 28
2. Miss Gray Ltd v Earl of
Cathcart (1922)38 TLR 562

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 3. Barret v Barret [I962] EA 607
4. Johnson v Johnson [I96I] EA
503
5. Uchai v Elikama (1970) EA 224
6. Roderick Foundation Antrodug
Johnson (1954) 27 KLR 94
7. Biberfield v Behrens [1952] 2
ALLER 237
8. Halden v Halden [1966] 3
ALLER 412
9. Edgar v Edgar [1980]3 ALLER
887
10. Hyman v Hyman (1929) AC
601
11. Callot v Nash (1923)39 T.L.R
292
12. Pinckney v Pinckney [1966] 1
ALLER 121
13. Williams v Williams (1957)
ALLER 305
14. Jones V Jones [1971]2 ALLER
737
15. Livesey (formerly Jenkins) v
Jenkins [1985] AC 424, [1985]1
ALLER 106

Matrimonial property Marital Property

Divorce Act cap 249 Laws of Uganda
Julius Rwabinumi V Hope
Bahimbisomwe CA. 10/2009
Marital home
1. Uganda v Jenina Kyanda [1977]
HCB 111
2. Edita Nakiyingi v Merekizadekj
[1978] NCR 107
3. Case V Ruguru [1970] EA 55
4. Hawa Mohammad v Alleyseju
C.A. No. 9 of 1983
5. Pettit v Pettit [1969] 2 ALLER
385
6. Gissing v Gissing [1970] 2
ALLER 780
7. Heseltine v Heseltine (1971] 1
ALLER 952
8. Williams v Williams [1976] Ch
278
9. Falconer v Falconer [1970] 3
ALLER 440
10. Allen v Allen (1961) W.L.R
118
11. Rimmer v Rimmer (1952)2
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 ALLER 863 (C.A)
12. Ulrich v Ulrich (1968) ALLER
67 (C.A)
13. Jones v Challenger [1961]1 Q.B
176
14. Cooke v Head (1972)2 ALLER
140
15. Gammans v Ekins (1950)2
ALLER 140
16. Hawes v Evenden (1953)
ALLER 737
17. Dyson Holdings Ltd v Fox
(1975)3 ALLER 1030 (H.L)
18. Davis v Johnson (1978)1
ALLER 1132 (H.L)
19. Spindow v Spindow (1979)1
ALLER 169 (C.A)
20. Pascoe v Turner (1979)2
ALLER 945 (C.A)
21. Tinker v Tinker (1970) P. 136

Household Property
1. Musinga v Musinga [1993] vi
KALR 160
2. Re Cole (A Bankrupt) [I963]2
A11er 433
3. Locke v Heath (1892) 8 T.L.R.
295
4. French v Gething [I922] I KB
236
5. Gascoigne v Gascoigne [1918]1
KB 228
6. Mawji V R (1957) AC 126
7. W v W [1956] 2 T.L.R 1135

Bank Accounts
1. Jones v Maynard [1951] 1
ALLER 802
2. Harrods Ltd v Tester (1937)2
ALLER 236
3. Re Bishop (1965)1 ALLER 241
4. Heseltine v Heseltine [1971] 1
ALLER 952
5. Hoddinott v Hoddinott [1949] 2
KB 406
6. Paul v Constance [1977] 1
ALLER 195

Savings From Housekeeping

Allowances
1. Hoddinott v Hoddinott [1949]

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2. Blackwell v Blackwell [1943] 2
ALLER 579
3. Re Johns [1970] 2 ALLER 210
4. Re Young (1913) 29 T.L.R. 319

Wedding Gifts
Samson v Samson [1960] 1 W.L.R. 190
Cohen v Selar [1926] 1 KB 536
Jacobs v Davis [1917] 2 KB 532
Jeffreys v Luck (I922) 153 LI Jo 39
Midland Bank v Cooke [1995] 4
ALLER 562
Kelner v Kelner [1939] P. 411.

Insurance Policy
Moonlight Sengooba v AG HCCS 894
of 1973

Customary Marriage
Case v Ruguru [I970] E A 55
Edita Nakiyingi v Merekizadeki (1978)
HCB 107
Semasaka v Nyiransabimana

Islamic Marriage
Ahareli Museraza v Nezareli Giwa
[1966] EA 117
Raya Busaidi v Hamad Busaidi [1962]
EA 248
Shall v Maryam [1967] EA 409
Re Juma Sadla’s Estate (1958) EA 508

Suspension of marital Divorce Act  What is meant by

obligations 1. Ruhara v Ruhara [1977] HCB
Separation 86
2. Colarasi v Colarossj [1965] EA
129
3. Barrett v Barret [1961] EA 503
4. R v MiLLER [1954] 2 QB 282
5. R v Clarke [I 949] 2 ALLER
448
6. De Souza v De Souza (1937) 17
KLR 78
7. William Carnie v Janie [1966]
EA 23
separation
 What are the types of
separation?
 What is the effect of
separation?
 What are the common
terms/ clauses in
separation agreements?

Dissolution of marriage Divorce Act  What is meant by

- Death Domicile for purposes of Divorce divorce?
- Divorce Section 1 Divorce Act  What is the difference
1. Tatiana Adebiyi v Adebiyi between Divorce and

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 Adenji [1900— 1991] KALR nullity?
36  What are the grounds of
2. Yohan Droogenhreech v Coolen divorce?
& Gibbons [1992] iv KALR 18  What are the bars to
3. Thornhill v Thornhill [1965] EA divorce?
268  Remedies that can be
4. Owens v Owens [1959] EA 909 obtained from court in
5. Uganda Association of Women divorce proceedings
Lawyers (FIDA) & Others v  Difference between
Attorney Gen. Constitutional decree nisi and decree
Petition No. 2 of 2003 absolute
6. Law and Advocacy for Women
in Uganda v Attorney Gen.
Constitutional petition No. 13 of
2005 and No. 05 of 2006
7. Also see: Zedekeya Karokora V
Kellen Karokora no. 20/2020
Judgment passed 18th August
2023
8. Rebecca Nagidde v Charles
Mwasa (Civil Appeal 160 of
2018)
9. Proscovia Namuyimbwa v
David Ralph Pace Divorce
Cause 14 of 2017
10. Sarah Kiyemba v Robert Batte
Divorce Cause 127 of 2018).
Previous regard to liberal
grounds like irretrievable
breakdown of marriage
11. Joweria Namukasa v
Livingstone Kakondere Divorce
Cause 30 of 2010;
12. Gershom Masiko v Florence
Masiko Civil Appeal 8 of 2011;
13. Julius Chama v Specioza
Rwalinda Mbabazi Divorce
Cause 25 of 2011
14. Julius Rwabinumi v Hope
Bahimbisomwe Civil Appeal
Divorce Cause 30 of 2007).

Grounds for Divorce

Adultery
1. Ruhara v Ruhara [1977] HCB
86
2. Dengo v Dengo, Divorce cause
No. I B/I 979
3. Irumba v Irumba, Divorce
Appeal No. MFP Dr. 1/1987
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 4. Dennis v Dennis [1955] 2
ALLER 651
5. Thompson v Thompson [1932]
p. 1 62
6. Clarkson v Clarkson (1930)143
LT 775
7. Yarrow v Yarrow [1892] p.92
8. Raprin v Raprin [1953]2
ALLER 349
9. AB v CD (1955) 28 klr 210
10. Redpath v Redpath [1950]
ALLER 600
11. Hadlum v Hadlum [1948]2
ALLER 412
12. Musinga v Musinga [1993]vi
Kalr 160

Joining Co-Respondent
1. Mutangwa v Mutagwa Divorce
Appeal No. 42 of 1994
2. Naumann v Naumann Divorce
Cause No. 6/1973

Cruelty
1. Ruhara V Ruhara [1977] HCB
86
2. Kasasa V Kasasa [1976] HCB
348
3. Habyarimana V Habyarimana
[1980] HCB 159
4. Boota Singh V R [1960] EA
638
5. Colbeck V Colbeck [1961] EA
431
6. Swan V Swan [1953] ALLER
854
7. Moss V Moss [I9I6] P. 155
8. Evans V Evans [1965] 2
ALLER 789

Desertion
1. Patel v Patel [1965] EA 560
2. Balinda v Balinda, Divorce
Cause Appeal No. 1 of 1997
3. Naylor v Naylor [I962] P. 253
4. Hope v Hope [1915] p 125
5. G v G [1961] P. 133.
6. Drew v Drew (1888) 13 PD 97
7. Perry v Perry [1952] 1 ALLER
1076. [1952] P. 203
8. Joseph v Joseph [1914] P. 122.

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 [1953] 2 ALLER 710
9. Halroid v Halroid [1920] 36
TLR 479
10. W v W [1961] P.49
11. Preddy v Preddy [1944] 2
ALLER 822
12. Mallinson v Mallinson [1961]
EA 185
13. Evans v Evans [1948] 1 KB 175
14. Winsnmore v Greenbank 125
ER 330

Bars to Divorce
Absolute Bars:

a) Connivance
1. Gorst v Gorst
2. Richmond v Richmond [l952]
ALLER 838
3. Gipps v Gipps (1861-1873)
ALLER 38
4. Woodbury v Woodbury (1948)2
ALLER 684
5. Godfrey v Godfrey [1964] 3
ALLER 154

b) Condonation
1. Mugonya v Mugonya [1975]
HCB 295
2. Cristina d/o Hamisi v Omari
Ntalala [1963] EA No.3
3. Colbeck v Colbeck [1961] EA
431
4. Hubbock v Hubbock [1948]
ALLER 412
5. Morley v Morley [1961]1
W.L.R 211
6. Burch v Burch [1958]1 ALLER
848
7. Crump v Crump [1962] 2 AlIer
980

c) Collusion
1. Head v Cox [1964]1
ALLER 776
2. Noble v Noble & Ellis
[1964] I ALLER 577
3. Colbeck v Colbeck [1961]
EA 431
4. Churchward v Churchward
[1910] P. 195

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Discretionary Bars
1. Aiiya v Aiiya Divorce Cause
No. 8 of 1973
2. Kerr v Kerr 20(1) K.L.R 20
3. Haynes v Haynes [1960]
ALLER 401
4. Balinda v Balinda Divorce
Cause App No. Dr. MFP 1/1997
5. Kivumbi v Kivumbi Divorce
Appeal No. 11973
6. Prince v Prince [1942] K.L.R 21
7. Medcalfe v Medcalfe [1941] 19
(2) KLR 52
8. Parker v Parker 20 (1) KLR 21
9. Stjernhom V Stjernhorn (1955)
28 KLR 183

Orders obtained on Grant of Divorce

1. Nyakairu v Nyakairu [1979]
HCB 261
2. Barret v Barret [1961] E.A 503
3. Nakagwa v Kiggundu [1978]
HCB 310
4. Habyarimana v Habyarimana
[1980] HCB 139
5. Essem v 0tim Divorce Cause
No.7 of 1988
6. LeGeyt v LeGeyt (24) 1 KLR
57
7. Taylor v Taylor [1941] 1 TLR
737

Decree Nisi, Decree Absolute

1. Noegy v Noegy [1967] EA 664
2. Morrice v Morrice (1942) 20(l)
KLR 23
3. Gunner v Gunner (1955) 28
KLR 28
4. Machanda v Machanda [1995] 2
KLR 590
5. Wickler v Wickler (1998)2 FLR
326
6. Bromley’s Family Law Pg 231 -
232
7. Dryden v Dryden [1973] 3
ALLER 526
8. Tarok v Tarok [1973]3 ALLER
101
9. Thynne v Thynne [1955] 3
ALLER 129

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 10. Callaghan v Hanson Fox [1992]
ALLER 56
11. Rogers v Rogers [1962] CLY
1045

Dissolution of a Customary Marriage

1. Ebulu v Ekwamu [1982] HCB
43
2. Bisanga v Bisanga Achilu
[1976] HCB 28
3. Alai V Uganda
4. Aiiya v Aiiya Divorce Cause
No. 8 of 1973
5. Ug. V Kunnimo Oliya and anor
Criminal Revision NO. 10/1974
6. Salina Anyangu v Sila Oyugi
[1979] Kenyan Law Reports
279

Dissolution of Islamic
Marriage/Talaq
1. Ayoob v Ayoob [1967] EA 416
2. Rattnessey v Rattnessey [1960]
EA 81
3. Alawi v Alawi [1953] 22 EACA
105
4. Kristina d/o Hamisi v Omati
Ntalala [1963] EA 463
5. Zainabu v Mohammed [1973]
EA 280
6. Raya Busaidi v Hamed Busaidi
& Anor [1962] E.A 248
7. Lali bin Ahmed v Asha Binti
Sheik Ahmed [1913 –14] (V)
EAPLR 165
8. Anarali Museraza (A minor
suing by his next friend
Mohammed Taki) v
Mohammed Nezarali Giwa &
Ors [1966] E.A 117
9. Re Juma Sadala’s estate [1958]
E.A 308

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