Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Health rights advocates have dragged the Kenyan Government to the East African Court of Justice for lifting the ban on the use of Genetically Modified Organisms-GMOs. The lawsuit was filed by the Center for Food and Adequate Living Rights- CEFROHT, a human organization that promotes …
Read More »Court dismisses Soroti city, Toroma county election petitions
Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Soroti has dismissed three election petitions filed against the Members of Parliament of Soroti City East, Soroti City West and Toroma County. In Soroti City East, the petition arose from the by-election that was conducted in July 2022 when Herbert Edmund …
Read More »Offensive communication is no longer an offence, court rules
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Constitutional ,in Kampala on Tuesday ruled that Section 25 of the Computer Misuse Act, 2011 which speaks about offensive communication contravenes the constitution and is therefore outlawed. In 2016, two people including lawyers Andrew Karamagi and Robert Shaka went to court to challenge that …
Read More »Court rules that only parents and children are part of a family
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Kampala has ruled that only parents and children are part of a family and therefore, only them can constitute a case on behalf of a deceased person. High Court Judge Esta Nambayo in a case where a one Charles Omony had …
Read More »Law that criminalised Stella Nyazi, Kakwenza kicked out
Constitutional Court boosts challenge of Nsereko amendments of Computer Misuse Act Kampala, Uganda | MUBATSI ASINJA HABATI | When former Makerere University Research Fellow Stella Nyanzi was in April 2017 picked by security agents from a fundraising function at Mackinnon Suites Hotel in Kampala, her case provoked heated debate locally and …
Read More »NRM cadres remanded to Lira prison over theft by misusing president’s name
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Magistrates Court in Lira remanded three NRM Cadres to Lira Government Prison over theft contrary to Section 254, 261 of the Penal Code Act. On Friday Vicky Atim, Basil Odyek, and Nelson Ocen appeared before Jonathan William Wamimbi, the Grade One Magistrate where they …
Read More »Court orders Haruna Sentongo to pay Orient Bank UGX 10Bn
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Kampala has ordered Haruna Sentongo, a brother to Ham Kiggundu to pay Orient Bank more than 10 billion Shillings accrued from loans advanced to him. In a judgment issued by Commercial Division judge Richard Wejuli Wabwire, the court found that indeed …
Read More »Over 1,000 cases settled by KCCA valuation court in six months
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The valuation court of Kampala Capital City Authority -KCCA has to date settled over 6,000 cases of property rate tax in a period of six months by consent and over 4,000 cases are pending judgment. Samuel Muyizzi, the chairperson of the court while presiding over …
Read More »Court acquits five Police officers accused of destroying evidence of 1 million
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Anti-Corruption Court in Kampala has acquitted five Police officers who were accused of destroying exhibit of one million shillings. The five officers Assistant Inspector of Police Apollo Kibuuka, Detective Constable Moses Okello, Karim Bakole, detective Prossy Candia and Sergent Mariah Nangobi, all working under …
Read More »Government given nine days to release Kabuleta
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders of National Economic Empowerment Dialogue (NEED) last week gave the government up to December 14 to release their president Joseph Kabuleta who is said to be in poor health and needs treatment. The leaders, who claim Kabuleta is in bad health, blame the Nakawa …
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