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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The High Court in Kampala has stopped criminal charges against a city lawyer accused of obtaining money by false pretence in regard to a disputed land transaction in Wakiso District.<\/b><\/p>\n

Lawyer Felix Kintu was charged before Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court in a case arising out of a 2013 disputed land transaction between the beneficiaries of the estate of the late George Kamya and Interlink Education Services Limited.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Criminal Division of the High Court justice Isaac Muwata stayed the criminal proceedings against Kintu, reasoning that there is already a pending civil case against the 14 family members and their lawyer- based on the same facts.<\/p>\n

Court records show that in 2014, Interlink Education Services sued 14 beneficiaries of the estate of late Kamya and Kintu in the High Court, accusing them of breach of a sales agreement to provide a land title and remove squatters from the disputed 15 acre land on block 220, plot 64 at Gimbo in Wakiso District.<\/p>\n

Interlink Education Services is also seeking to recover the Shs195 million which they paid for the land.<\/p>\n

Justice Muwata described the criminal case filed in 2022 before the Magistrates Court as an abuse of the court process.<\/p>\n

\u201c…the decision in the pending civil dispute would be sufficient and binding to decide who the seller was and who is supposed to refund the said Shs195 million,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo avoid conflicting decisions in the High Court and the lower court, it is proper to stay the criminal proceedings,\u201d ruled Justice Muwata.<\/p>\n

According to him, the stay would enable court to hear and determine the civil matter which was filed early 2014.<\/p>\n

Justice Muwata held that if allowed, the case in the lower court would prejudice Kintu, who was the lawyer for the vendors in the disputed land transaction.<\/p>\n

The High Court decision followed a land transaction between the beneficiaries of the Late Kamya\u2019s estate and Interlink Education Services who accused the lawyer of obtaining Shs195 million by falsely pretending to sell land whereas not.<\/p>\n

Court documents show that the directors of Interlink filed a criminal complaint against the seasoned lawyer after he declined to compel his clients led by Abdul Sewaya to refund their money.<\/p>\n

After the court, Kintu welcomed court’s decision saying “the case against him did not have legal basis and was frivolous.”<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been challenging that case because it only aimed at tarnishing me for reasons I do not know. But the court has decided basing on the law because lawyers cannot be blamed for mistakes done by their clients,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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