ELECTORAL COMMISSION OF UGANDA v HON. SITENDA SEBALU

This ruling is in respect of two bills of costs filed by the Applicant herein who featured as Respondent in Reference No. 1 of 2010 and as Applicant in Application No. 2 of 2012. The Court in its judgment in Reference No. 1 of 2010 dated 30^th June, 2011 struck of the 3^rd and 4^th Respondents, that is, Hon. Sam Njuba and Electoral Commission of Uganda, the later who is the Applicant herein and directed that the Applicant in the Reference, who is the Respondent in this taxations pay their costs. The Applicant in the Reference who is also the respondent in this taxation was as well awarded costs to be paid by the 1^st and 2^nd Respondents in the Reference, whose bill was filed and taxed by the Registrar.

Taxation Cause No. 3 of 2013 arises from an Application No. 2 of 2012 filed by the Applicant Electoral Commission of Uganda, which was for extension of time to file his bill of costs. At the hearing of the Application on 28^th March, 2012 the Respondent made an oral application for leave to file affidavits out of time and be allowed to file supplementary affidavits. By my ruling delivered on 8^th June, 2012 the application for leave to file affidavits out of time and allow filling supplementary affidavits was dismissed. I further ordered that Applications number 1 and 2 of 2012 proceed for hearing without the affidavits on record and that costs out of the oral applications should be borne by the oral applicant/respondent, that is, Hon. Sitenda Sebalu.