The Office of the Ombudsman assessed 1,091 cases that people had submitted to it over injustice they claimed was committed in court judgments.
The Supreme Court later tried 23 of those cases, and confirmed that there was injustice in 20 or 86.9 percent of them.
"96 cases out of 1,091 assessed by the Office of the Ombudsman were submitted to the Supreme Court as they were found to be judged unfairly.
MP Furaha Emma Rubagumya, the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Political Affairs and Gender said that cases which are tried in courts but they are found to have been judged unfairly, and cases whose judgments are ineffectively executed, are among prevalent issues that are received by the Office of the Ombudsman.
Meanwhile, she said that the Minister of Justice explained to the Committee that strategies were adopted to solve the problem, including reinforcing court inspection, peer learning among judges, and referring to other cases tried by superior courts while making decisions on similar cases.
