liability of the third-party or any party, it cannot be written in the word "the
loss" provided as a cause under clause 6.1 of the agreement exhibit D1.
Because robbery is not an excluded cause for liability, it can be covered by the
word "the loss" referred to above. I therefore don't need to consider whether
the word "theft" is a generic term that incorporates in it "robbery" as a form of
theft. Secondly, I have taken into account the submissions of the plaintiff that
robbery of the plaintiff’s cargo has not been proved in this court.
According to the pleadings and testimony of TPW1, the loss occurred due to an
alleged robbery. I must add, that I have already held in agreement with
submissions for the plaintiffs counsel that no evidence was led that there was
an actual robbery. Exhibit TP2 which is the police report dated 19th of October
2010 is entitled "police report". It is head noted CID Email and may have arisen
from that office. The document is not a charge sheet. It shows that five
suspects were charged and produced at Makindye Principal Magistrate's Court
on robbery charges. Three witnesses in brackets stated to be for the thirdparty testified. None of these witnesses were called by the third-party. Instead
it is the third parties managing director who appeared as TPW1. He received
the report of what could have happened but this cannot substitute first hand
testimony of the people who witnessed the alleged incident. It follows, that
the submissions of the third-party is premised on an assumption that robbery
was proved in evidence. Even on the ground that exhibit TP 2 was admitted by
consent of the parties, none of the witnesses or the authors of the report were
ever called. What is even material is that it is a document purporting to
emanate from outside the jurisdiction of this court in that it emanates from a
foreign country.
Section 77 (1) (d) of the Evidence Act, provides for proof of official documents
emanating from a foreign country. It provides:
77. Proof of other official documents.
(1) The following public documents may be proved as follows—
(b) the acts of the executive or the proceedings of the legislature of a
Commonwealth or foreign country, by journals published by their
authority, or commonly received in that country as such, or by a copy
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