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[veriTY™️ @VERITY_HQ]

This is the reason why I say women don’t have the capacity to raise children

[ericocann_🦍 @ericocann_1]

@MuyaakaAlfred @DeanNatukunda @Simpolo_10 @LivingMuhumuza @kityomartins @NtumeSharifu It could as well be congratulations; we can always look up to you to archive great things.

[⚖️ TriteLaw🇺🇬 @TriteLawUG]

On 5-Dec-2022 Wamala J in ⏬cited Ochwa vs AG where Mubiru J ✍️there is no power to arrest & detain a person merely to make enquiries about him or her. Constitution does not permit an arrest for purposes of interrogation in hope of getting enough information to ground a charge⏬

[⚖️ TriteLaw🇺🇬 @TriteLawUG]

Contempt of court must not infringe the right under Article 40(2) of the Constitution, which allows every person in Uganda to practise their profession freely.

Punishments 4 contempt should respect due process & not unlawfully hinder lawful professional duties

#FreeEronKiiza

[UgHistory @UGHistory256]

14 March 2007.

Kampala High Court.

Over 700 lawyers, dressed in white shirts and black suits, gathered in silence.

They had been on strike for three days.

Now they were here to perform an ancient ritual of purification.

At the front, a lawyer held aloft a blood‑stained shirt, evidence of what the state had done in this very building two weeks earlier.

The Cleansing of the Court - 2007

The procession, led by Chief Justice Benjamin Odoki and Uganda Law Society President Oscar John Kihika, circled the court building in a symbolic cleansing ceremony.

Kihika described it as an "age‑old African ritual designed to purify the court."

The bloodied shirt and tie belonged to Kiyemba Mutale, a lawyer who had been beaten unconscious during a government raid on the High Court on 1 March.

That day, armed security forces from the "Black Mamba" anti‑terrorism unit had stormed the criminal registry to re‑arrest nine treason suspects who had just been granted bail after 15 months in detention.

During the hours‑long standoff, Mutale was attacked.

The suspects were beaten, bundled into a police vehicle, and taken away.

The raid was a grim echo of November 2005, when the same unit had laid siege to the High Court to prevent the release of the same men during Kizza Besigye's presidential campaign.

The 2007 attack triggered an unprecedented response.

On 5 March, Uganda's judges went on a week‑long strike to protest the assault on judicial independence.

On 12 March, the Uganda Law Society began its own three‑day sit‑down strike, demanding an apology and concrete reforms.

Five ULS members who held high‑level government positions were suspended.

Justice James Ogoola captured the gravity:

"The point had to be made. They will not survive unless the rule of law, independence of the judiciary and all other fundamental principles that hold the nation together are back to form."

President Museveni eventually expressed regret for the incident and promised a "legal and transparent modus operandi" for future arrests.

The judges and lawyers returned to work.

But the ceremony on 14 March was more than a conclusion, it was a declaration.

Mutale's bloodied shirt, held high before the committee tasked with investigating the raid, was not just evidence.

It was a symbol that the judiciary would not be cowed.

The cleansing was not merely ritual.

It was a line drawn in the dust of a courtroom, a reminder that even in the face of armed men, the law could still speak.

#ughistory #ULS @ug_lawsociety
@Lawpointuganda @JudiciaryUG

[Kenya Judiciary Academy @KJA_Kenya]

⚖️ The Bench Speaks 📜

The Court of Appeal has stated that demanding rent or filing a rent tribunal case won't stop adverse possession. To interrupt the 12-year clock, you must either physically re-enter the land or file a suit for possession—not just rent. Letters alone won't save your title.
CIVIL APPEAL NO. 23 OF 2019 MOHAMMED AZHAR S/O MOHAMMED AKRAM (DECEASED) Vs HARDEV KALSI SINGH and 4 others.

https://t.co/8dXISqx0w6

@Kenyajudiciary @jsckenya @KMJA_KENYA
@lawsocietykenya @NCAJ_KE

[⚖️ TriteLaw🇺🇬 @TriteLawUG]

Nagawa J Dissolves marriage due to 13 years of Desertion by wife who left for prayers & never went back home but relocated to Finland✍️Grants Husband's request to share property equally with her & transfer money to Ex-Wife's mother upon sale of property in Entebbe.

[⚖️ TriteLaw🇺🇬 @TriteLawUG]

H.C observes; Child born during wedlock is presumed to be seed of that marriage, Exempts unmarried cohabitants, Denies DNA test to determine paternity of adult who does not complain about his/her parenthood Due to Privacy , Grants exhumation to bar multiplicity of cases

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[⚖️ TriteLaw🇺🇬 @TriteLawUG]

An illegality remains so, irrespective of how long it has been practiced. As the Latin maxim goes - dormiunt leges aliquando, nunquam moriuntur (THE LAWS SOMETIMES SLEEP, BUT THEY NEVER DIE).The fact that a law has not been enforced for so long does not change its status as a law

[⚖️ TriteLaw🇺🇬 @TriteLawUG]

Komuhangi J Dissolves Marriage✍️finds wife adulterous, Rejects her evidence that man arrested with at husband’s Home was a relative whose grandmothers were sisters✍️Orders her to take 30% in matrimonial properties✍️adulterous man to Pay UGX 10M as damages 2 Respondent (Ex-Husband

[Lawrence Kitema @lawrencekitema]

No one talks about how hard 21 to 35 really is. You’re building a life while healing from one, as your parents age and friends drift away. Your career feels uncertain, and most days you’re just surviving—but even then, you’re doing better than you think.

[ericocann_🦍 @ericocann_1]

@NinyeTabz "....some animals are more equal than others". @GeorgeOwell's Animal farm

[⚖️ TriteLaw🇺🇬 @TriteLawUG]

On 31-Aug-2009, Court of Appeal in Paul Nyamarere Vs Uganda Electricity Board defined obiter dicta as remarks made in passing & not directly on the issue before the court✍Such statements do not form part of the ratio decidendi,are not binding,but may be persuasive where relevant

[ericocann_🦍 @ericocann_1]

@Lawpointuganda @LDC_Uganda Very sound 👍

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@LegalRas Nga bulijjo

[⚖️ TriteLaw🇺🇬 @TriteLawUG]

Supreme Court reaffirms that the general rule is that, lack of remorse should not be treated as an aggravating factor when sentencing an accused person.

[JSC Conversations @JSConversations]

"Under the Registration of Titles Act, if somebody has been on mailo land for more than 12 years, has put up economic activities, has a house there, and has not been disturbed by the title holder he can apply to the registrar and get a title in fee simple. Without paying anything to the title holder. The provision is there. Why are we not using it?"

Dr. Sam Mayanja, Attorney General of the Republic of Uganda speaking @JSConversations @elisonk

[Kakumba Nelson @NellyKumba]

Only a lawyer would understand the weight of 61 pages of Mubiru J's ruling.
All RDCs, Police officers ought to read this.
Kiranda Timothy &Anor V Hajjat Fatuma Nabitaka Ndisaba & 7 Ors.
MC 61 of 2025
@Uganda_LII @Lex_Amica

[ericocann_🦍 @ericocann_1]

@LegalRas @edmond_common @lawsocietymak @Makerere @basalirwaisma @Omujugujugu1 Congratulations legal rasta

[Signum Advocates @Signumadvocates]

Robert Kirunda speaks to participants about AI in the employment space.

#LabourLawConf2026