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The Award of Compensation in Criminal Cases in East Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Douglas Brown
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In East Africa the traditional division of “native justice” on the one side and “English law” on the other is gradually disappearing. Within the foreseeable future it is possible to visualize a single system of law administered by one judiciary. The fusion of customary law and modified English law has been, or is being, achieved with a remarkable lack of friction. Generally speaking, however, customary law has had to make greater sacrifices in achieving the fusion than its more powerful brother, the common and statutory law of the three states. The latter has made a few minor concessions; for example, when customary criminal law disappeared in Uganda in 1964, the Penal Code was amended to admit adultery as a statutory offence. Adultery had been an offence among all the different tribes in Uganda. But it is usually customary law which has had to change to achieve a single system of law.

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Research Article
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Journal of African Law , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , Spring 1966 , pp. 33 - 39
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1966

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References

1 Uganda Magistrate&s Courts Act 1964, Fourth Schedule.

2 Kenya Criminal Procedure Code, s. 175, Tanganyika Criminal Procedure Code, s. 178, Uganda Criminal Procedure Code, s. 176.

page 34 note 1 R. v. Yessappa bin Ningappa, 5 Bom. Cr. 41.

page 34 note 2 R. v. Baijoo Koormee, 5 W.R. Cr. 76.

page 34 note 3 In re Lutchmaka (1889), I.L.R. 12 Mad. 352.

page 34 note 4 R. v. Lall Singh, 10 W.R. Cr. 39.

page 34 note 5 R. v. Reddon (1883), I.L.R. 6 Mad. 286.

page 34 note 6 R. v. Nowa Ogenyi (1936–51), 6 U.L.R. 33.

page 35 note 1 R. v. Norman Godhino (1950), 17 E.A.C.A. 132.

page 35 note 2 Ahamed Mahamoud v. R., [1959] E.A. 1087.

page 35 note 3 Mehar Singh v. R. (1936–51), 6 U.L.R. 265.

page 36 note 1 Mehar Singh v. R. (1936–51), 6 U.L.R. 241.

page 36 note 2 R. v. Cyprian Okwi, Uganda High Court, Criminal Revision Case No. 2 of 1962 (unreported).

page 36 note 3 Uganda v. Bangirana, Uganda High Court, Criminal Revision Case No. 53 of 1964 (unreported).

page 37 note 1 R. v. Dunmow Justices, ex parte Anderson, [1964] 2 All E.R. 943.

page 37 note 2 [1943] 2 All E.R. 99.

page 37 note 3 [1948] 2 All E.R. 35.

page 38 note 1 Uganda Magistrates’ Courts Act 1964.

page 38 note 2 Primary Courts Criminal Code, s. 5 (1) (a). Tanganyika Magistrates’ Courts Act 1963, Third Schedule.

page 38 note 3 Under s. 5 (2) (b), Third Schedule to the Magistrates’ Courts Act. The Minimum Sentences Act states (s. 6) that compensation is mandatory in the case of scheduled offences.

page 38 note 4 Kenya African Courts Ordinance (cap. 11), s. 18.