Reported by Kerry Howard Mwesigwa The Constitutional Court in Kampala has nullified the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Control Act of 2015 in Uganda, which prohibited the sale and use of several narcotic drugs, including…
Reported by Kerry Howard Mwesigwa Uganda’s parliament on Tuesday 2nd May 2023 passed a mostly unchanged version of one of the world’s strictest anti-LGBTQ+ bills, which retains the harshest measures of the legislation adopted in…
Reported by Kerry Howard Mwesigwa The International Crimes Division of the High Court in Kampala, Uganda has confirmed terrorism charges against Jamal Kiyemba. The former Guantanamo Bay detainee is accused of providing support to a…
Reported by Sandra Ainebyoona The Anti-Corruption Court in Kampala was the setting for a bail application hearing for the Honorable Agnes Nandutu, a Member of Parliament for Budduda and Minister of State for Karamoja Affairs,…
The Attorney General is seeking to represent four police officers involved in a land dispute case in Namanve Industrial Park, Wakiso District. The police officers, including the Kampala East Regional Police Commander and the Mukono…
Reported by Sandra Ainebyoona Calamity struck the small community of Pajwenda town council in Kisoko (West Budama) in Tororo District on May 1, 2023, when a fourteen-year-old boy took his own life. Michael Ochola, a…
Reported by Howard Kerry Mwesigwa State Minister for Labor, Employment and Industrial Relations, Colonel (Rtd) Charles Okello Engola was assassinated on Tuesday 2nd May at about 8 am in the morning in the Ugandan capital…
For there to be a lawful summary termination, the provisions of the Employment Act, 2006 override any contractual provisions which allow for payment in Iieu of notice where notice is provided for unless the
employee accepts the termination by payment in Lieu of notice
Reported by Kerry Howard Mwesigwa On April 28, 2023, it was announced that the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee had taken one day to scrutinize the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2023, as returned by President Museveni for…
Reported by Kerry Howard Mwesigwa It was a day of reckoning for Abaho Joshua, Senior Assistant Secretary at the Ministry of Karamoja Affairs, as he appeared in court on 27th April 2023 facing charges of…
