The proceedings before the criminal division of the High Court in the Besigye-Lutaale trials are a no-winner, moronic process supervised by (in)Justice Baguma.
The State-appointed lawyers DO NOT represent Besigye and Lutaale in any form or shape ( their report herein is instructive). Any attention to them in that regard is unwarranted, unfair, and unnecessary.
All attention may have to be turned on the trial judge, who seems robotic, unaware, or intentionally disregards due process/fair hearing - never seen an unwise and willfully incompetent fellow like him in judicial robes.
Outcome Driven Or ...... ?
There is something instructive about this judgement that has nothing to do with whether the plaintiff deserved to win. He probably did. His words were altered and republished under his name in a way capable of damaging a professional reputation built over a decade. The difficulty lies in how the court got there, In my view.
One misquoted tweet produced six findings of liability: copyright infringement, false attribution, misrepresentation, defamation, negligence and passing off. Each doctrine is argued largely on its own terms, as though the other five did not exist. That is the tell. A court that begins by asking what interest has actually been infringed, whether this is at bottom a reputational harm, a proprietary one or a privacy one, should be able to resolve a dispute like this through a single well reasoned doctrine rather than six loosely stacked ones.
The comparative law reasoning compounds the problem. Doctrines are imported from English, American, Canadian and Kenyan authority without much attention to the constitutional and statutory scaffolding that made those doctrines coherent at home. A right born of section 43 of the old English Copyright Act does not travel cleanly into a system whose legislature never created an equivalent. Rules borrowed this way tend to behave differently once detached from the assumptions that shaped them. (Lord denning was instructive In Nyali Ltd Vs Attorney general)
Damages tell the same story. The judgment invokes restitutio in integrum, a corrective justice idea concerned only with loss actually suffered, then turns to American authority on statutory damages for mass piracy, where Congress deliberately set awards above actual loss for deterrence. These are different theories of why damages exist. Reaching for both within the same reasoning does not reconcile them, it simply picks whichever justification supports the sum the court wished to reach.
None of this means the plaintiff was wrong to sue or wrong to succeed. It means the judgment will be difficult for future courts to extract a workable rule from, because precedent is built from reasons rather than results.
Worth reading closely before anyone cites it too confidently.
The postal service is still very much alive around the world. Posta Uganda has so many opportunities for growth. With Pearl Bank, each post office could have a counter that receives payments for utility bills and bank deposits for all Ugandan banks. Next, Posta should revive the culture of writing letters and cards. It is a beautiful and meaningful culture. You keep that letter; you don't print that WhatsApp message. Parcels are a treasure. Sending a pack of aromatic Ugandan coffee to a friend abroad is just a wonderful thing. Receiving parcels? Imagine each neighbourhood fitted with a parcel dispenser: you go with the code and retrieve your parcel from the nearest petrol station or shopping mall. Countrywide delivery for online trade, including furniture and white goods. Home delivery of mail and small parcels. And so on. It can happen.
In case you're wondering, the song accompanying the video is "Love Who You Are" by the British R&B singer Natasha Watts.
Released just over ten years ago, in May 2016.
(Yes, they still produce this kind of '80s-sounding music.)
For those who like to talk about “value addition” in coffee, this is what it means in real life. Meet my friend @ibrahimsamande1 of Mayi Shai coffee in Nigeria. This is how authentic investors arrive in the ready to drink consumer market
"I visited two Hass avocado farmers in Kayunga, Uganda, last week—one with an orchard and another managing 300+ acres. The biggest takeaway? They and many other farmers are being misled by unqualified "experts."
@kimcentt@salimo_paul@rhythmafrica256 Fungal comes when you have poor pruning and the leaves take long to dry after shower. The same scenario with rain.
Dairies of a farmer 🧑🌾
Collected some DATA the last couple of days☕️
12,204-active coffee trees
200-inactive coffee trees
5kgs-estimated average output per tree
@rhythmafrica256
REBELS: In a landmark move, Senior Counsel Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, one of South Africa’s most prominent advocates, has been officially sworn in as an Acting Justice of the Constitutional Court, for a six-month term running until 30 November.
#RadicalNewBar
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This demonstrates the damage that some people cause to others online, just to get a little ‘food’. The person on camera represents the rest of us who simply look on or share toxic stuff for likes.