The applicants, then without a lawyer, filed a self-drafted joint written statement of defence dated 17 August 2026. The court received it on 17 August 2026 and it is endorsed as lodged on 19 August 2026. Counsel for the applicants gave the date as 12 August 2026, but the court record shows the later dates. The defence denied the claim, relied on the Administrator General’s distribution agreement and a UNRA assessment form, and raised no counterclaim
On 24 August 2026 the applicants filed this application with a proposed Amended Written Statement of Defence and Counterclaim (Annexure “A”). They say that after instructing counsel they found that their own defence omitted and misstated material facts, among them illegality, fraud, limitation and their status on the land. The proposed pleading also adds a counterclaim against the respondents for declarations about the land and the Administrator General’s process, a permanent injunction, an account of UNRA compensation, damages and costs.
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