THE COBRA EFFECT 🐍
During the British Raj, officials grew concerned about the rising number of venomous cobras in Delhi. To tackle the issue, they introduced a bounty for every dead snake.
At first, the policy seemed successful, many cobras were killed.
LDC Publishers has released two comprehensive legal reference works: the Compendium of Laws Relating to Family and Domestic Relations in Uganda and the Compendium of Laws on Criminal Procedure and Practice in Uganda.
The publications consolidate Uganda’s core laws on marriage, divorce, children’s rights, succession, maintenance, custody, domestic violence, evidence, arrest, detention, trial, sentencing and appeals.
They provide an accessible and practical resource for advocates, prosecutors, judicial officers, legal advisers, academics, researchers, policymakers and law students.
Family and Domestic Relations Compendium:
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Criminal Procedure and Practice Compendium:
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"They've spent centuries trying to convince you that civilization began with your conquest. They want you to believe that before the colonizer arrived, you had no science, no intelligence, no generational wealth, no royalty, no education, no healing..."
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URA Sold Medical Equipment Worth UGX 1.46 Billion for UGX 4 Million? The High Court Wasn't Having It.
"Had such notice been issued, the plaintiff would have been afforded an opportunity to take remedial action." — Justice Bernard Namanya
This decision is a timely reminder that statutory power is never a license to ignore statutory procedure.
URA argued that the donated medical equipment had overstayed the statutory warehousing period and was therefore lawfully disposed of. But the Court shifted the focus from whether URA had the power to sell to how that power was exercised.
The Court found glaring procedural failures:
1. No proof of the mandatory one-month statutory notice before sale.
2. No valuation report before disposing of the goods.
3. Medical equipment worth about UGX 1.46 billion allegedly sold for only UGX 4 million.
4. The exit note couldn't even account for the high-value medical equipment rather it referred instead to worn clothing weighing far less than the imported cargo.
The lesson is bigger than customs law.
Whenever legislation grants a public authority the power to interfere with private rights, strict compliance with the procedure is not optional, it is the very source of the authority's legitimacy.
A public body may possess the power to act, but once it disregards the safeguards imposed by law, that action ceases to be lawful. Procedure is not a technicality; it is the citizen's first line of protection against arbitrary administrative action.
Babaana Children of Uganda Ltd v Uganda Revenue Authority (2026) UGHCCD 23
#TaxLaw #AdministrativeLaw
@nbstv I support the idea but if given a choice, I will choose cash all the time. No one can freeze hard cash, digital money loses its value in every transaction which is not the case with had cash.