The High Court in Kampala has dismissed with costs a case in which two people - Difas Basile and Hassan Twala had sued National Unity Platform (NUP), seeking the deregistration of the party following its change of name and ownership.
Justice Musa Ssekaana ruled that court declines to entertain the application since it was not brought under any known procedure.
He also ruled that the application was made to avoid the time limit of three months within which an application for judicial review should have been brought.
"The judicial review guidelines or rules equally provide for locus standi and this would have been the threshold before the applicants would seek to challenge the actions of a party. It is an abuse of court process," he ruled.
However, the judge dismissed the application with costs to the respondents.
The party, formerly known as National Unity Reconciliation and Development Party (NURP), is now headed by Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine under the new name NUP.
Kyagulanyi had been sued alongside, Moses Nkonge Kibalama, Paul Ssimbwa Kagombe, David Lewis Rubongoya, Aisha Kabanda, Joel Ssenyonyi, Flavia Kalule Nabagabe, Fred Nyanzi Ssentamu, the Electoral Commission and Attorney General.
Justice Musa Ssekaana ruled that court declines to entertain the application since it was not brought under any known procedure.
He also ruled that the application was made to avoid the time limit of three months within which an application for judicial review should have been brought.