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[Uganda Law Society @ug_lawsociety]

#RNBTechFest2026: Thank you everyone that supported this year's edition.

#DigitalTransformation #LawyersOnECCMIS

[Mlamli Baliso @BalisoMlamli]

Someone sent this to me. There was just no way I wasn’t gonna share such beauty with my friends here. ❤️

[Ministry of Lands,Housing and Urban Development @ministry_lands]

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 The Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development cautions the public against fraudsters falsely claiming that land titles issued before 2020 require an update or migration by Surveys and Mapping. Do not surrender your certificate of title!

[Benjamin Oteng Israel @OtengBenjamin10]

DNA said “Not your child.” The Court said, “Then who pays the bill?”

In Namutebi v Ssenabulya, Divorce Cause No. 96 of 2016 [2023] UGHCFD 58, the High Court delivered a striking judgment on matrimonial property, child maintenance and, most unusually, misattributed paternity.

The Respondent had raised a child for about 27 months believing the child was his. He later discovered through DNA testing that he was not the biological father.

The Court did not treat the matter as merely a broken-heart story.
It held that the duty to raise a child should not be abused to make an innocent person shoulder costs that ordinarily would not belong to him. The Court observed that the costs may be financial and emotional, including the embarrassment caused by the deception.

The Court therefore awarded him UGX 4.89 million for the expenditure associated with caring for the child and UGX 5 million in general damages for psychological and emotional torture.

That is the groundbreaking part.
The judgment recognises that fraudulent or misattributed paternity can generate a compensable loss, not merely matrimonial bitterness.

But the Court was careful not to make the child the wrongdoer. The child remained entitled to care, protection and parental rights. The Court expressly emphasised that the innocent child should not bear the consequences of the adults’ conduct.
The judgment also delivered important lessons on matrimonial property:

Financial contribution is not the whole story. The Court recognised non-financial contribution in determining entitlement to the matrimonial home.

And perhaps another litigation lesson: pleadings are not decoration. Parties cannot introduce properties through evidence where those properties were never pleaded.

One judgment, several lessons.
Sometimes the most expensive discovery in a marriage is not the divorce it is discovering that you were paying school fees for a child who was never biologically yours.
#DNAandCompensations.

[Professor Awesome @rsnokes]

My career as a Karamajong herdsman ends before it begins as we learn I’m unable to sit on one of the tiny portable chairs they take with them out into the savanna. #uganda #unfluencing #allwaysreal #alwaystroy

[Gukiina Patrick @GukiinaPatrick]

#LEGAL ALERT.
#Visual variance of signatures.
The High Court has re-affirmed the fact that mere variance of a signature is inadequate to sustain an alleged forgery and the same cannot make an affidavit a nullity in absence of a hand writing expert analysis report. See : Owebeyi James v Kwizera Eddie Wa-Gahungu and Another (Election Petition No. 2 of 2026) [2026] UGHC 1080

[ROBA & ASSOCIATES LLP @AssociatesRoba]

🚨 DO YOU STILL THINK YOU MUST SIGN THE DEAL YOURSELF FOR THE LAW TO HOLD YOU ACCOUNTABLE? YOU ARE MISTAKEN!

The High Court at Nakuru has made the position clear in Rachel Wafula v John Gachunga t/a Jowanga Enterprises, Civil Appeal No. E253 of 2024, delivered on 14th September 2026. Rachel purchased an engine through her brother-in-law, who acted on her instructions, used the vehicle’s logbook and engaged mechanics in identifying and procuring the engine. When a dispute arose, the seller argued that Rachel had no contractual relationship with him because she had not personally negotiated or selected the engine. The High Court disagreed. Applying the principles of agency, the Court held that the acts of an authorized agent bind the principal and that, once the agent acted within Rachel’s authority, the seller supplied the engine and accepted the Kshs. 920,000 payment, contractual privity existed directly between Rachel and the seller. The Court relied on the established principle that he who does anything through another, does it himself.

But there was another important qualification. Having a contract does not automatically mean that every complaint about the goods will succeed. The Court considered section 16 of the Sale of Goods Act on fitness for purpose and merchantable quality, but found that those implied conditions had not been established because the engine had been selected through the buyer’s own representatives and there was insufficient evidence that the replacement engine was defective. The Court nevertheless found an error of law in the lower court’s contradictory position that there was no contract while simultaneously ordering a refund, and ultimately directed that the Kshs. 920,000 be refunded after sale of the engine, failing which the seller would have to pay the amount unconditionally. The jurisprudence is clear: you can transact through an authorized agent without personally signing or negotiating the deal and still acquire enforceable contractual rights and obligations.

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[RUAKA FINEST🔥 @Ruakafine]

New banger!! Choir master is saying girls just want to sleep with you leave!!😂😂😂And what's up with that Guitarist and Piano man clashing the moment they heard no man is handsome not unless is gay?😂😭

[Julio  @arihojulio]

Andrew Wilson who didn't even go to school managed to spy on Kizza Besigye.
He says he stopped school at just 15 years old and joined the British army whereby it's so impossible to join British Army when you're not educated.
He agrees that guns that were in the apartment where they met with KB and Lutale might have been staged because he didn't also know about them.

[Konsa @afckonsa15]

🚨🚨Did you know. ?
🔹A former Man United defender is the mastermind behind Arsenal having the league's most disciplined defence... 😳

🔹Gabriel Heinze — playing a “KEY” role at Arsenal, while United continue to struggle at the back.
Follow for more updates @afckonsa15
#afc

[Lawpoint Uganda @Lawpointuganda]

High Court at Fort Portal Dismisses Appeal, Holds That Payment of a Deposit Towards Land Purchase Does Not Confer Ownership Where the Agreement Made Completion Conditional on Payment of the UGX 13 Million Balance

The Court held that land ownership must be determined from the totality of the evidence rather than documentary instruments alone.

It found the argument based on section 64 of the Evidence Act unpersuasive, explaining that the provision regulates the admissibility of secondary evidence but does not require a court to disregard otherwise credible evidence merely because the original document is unavailable.

The Court further observed that the Appellants could not attack the Respondent’s documents on that ground while simultaneously inviting the Court to rely on their own photocopy, emphasizing that litigation must be conducted consistently and that a party cannot invoke an evidential principle for its own benefit while rejecting the same principle when relied upon by its opponent.

Read more

https://t.co/2CJ1te7zYJ

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

BROUGHT THE FIGHT.

[Uganda Legal Information Institute @Uganda_LII]

Kiiza James v Ihsan Advocates (Formerly Mugisa, Namutale & Co. Advocates) and Others (Civil Suit No. 124 of 2019) [2026] UGHC 1051 (8 September 2026)

Payments acknowledged to the visible advocate bind the firm, and fees for work done without a practising certificate are irrecoverable under section 75.
👉:https://t.co/YflYkKkJjh

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

Mwenda announcing the next Omukama

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

NO COUNTRY: One of the songs I wrote, arranged, and did the rest with AI. I hope it touches hearts.

https://t.co/aQqzh6DblC

[Sudhir Byaruhanga @Sudhirntv]

If you earn 4.8 million to 10m you will be paying a 30% income tax. Tougher times ahead thanks to @URAuganda

[Benjamin Oteng Israel @OtengBenjamin10]

You cannot call an employee to answer Charge A, then dismiss him for Charge B.

In John Fredrick Mubiru v Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Ltd , the Industrial Court found Mubiru’s dismissal procedurally and substantively unlawful.

He was summoned to explain issues surrounding cancelled electricity bills and meter readings. But when the dismissal came, the reasons had shifted to under-reading meters, abuse of office, neglect of duty and causing financial loss.

The Court was clear:

“The employer is not at liberty to change the reasons at any time during the proceedings… The reasons must therefore be specific and unambiguous.”

That is the essence of a fair hearing: an employee must know the case he is required to meet.

The Court also faulted the employer for the prolonged disciplinary process and held that its managerial prerogative does not permit it to disregard natural justice and its own disciplinary procedures.

Lesson for employers: A disciplinary hearing is not a moving target. You cannot change the goalposts after the employee has already defended himself.

[⚖️ TriteLaw🇺🇬 @TriteLawUG]

Wagona J, Reaffirms that ✍️it's settled principle of statutory interpretation that where a special enactment governs a particular subject matter, it prevails over legislation of general application

✍️actions founded in tort against Government bodies and public authorities, the applicable limitation regime is not the general limitation provisions contained in the Limitation Act, but the special statutory regime established under the Civil Procedure and Limitation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act governing tortious claims against Government, local authorities and scheduled corporations

Case link: https://t.co/82E33wnNMr

[Benon M. Gowa @BenonGowa]

Here's the best case law on assessment of general damages in JR proceedings;

1. ED, NEMA vs. Solid State Ltd; SCCA No.15 of 2015 (December 21, 2018) per Arach-Amoko, JSC.

2.Kiwanuka Bendicto Galiko vs. DP; HCMC No.306 of 2020 (September 11, 2023) per Odoki, J (Civil Division).

[BEN @afc_ben10]

🚨🚨Mikel Konsa on the sudden aggression in his playing style:

🗣️ “On my first day training with Arsenal, I saw terrible things. Gabriel was flying into Gyokeres and Havertz like he owed him money. Hincapié was throwing himself into tackles like it was a cup final. Ben White was leaving the ground just to win a ball in training. Calafiori was sliding in from places I didn’t even know were legal. Bodies were hitting the floor, boots were flying and nobody was apologising.

I looked around and realised Arteta had assembled MAD MEN. These weren’t defenders. These were mad men with football boots. If I wanted to start for Arsenal, I knew I had to become a mad man too. So I locked in.”