Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawyer Robert Rutaro has withdrawn a civil suit he had filed against the Uganda Law Society-ULS President Isaac Ssemakadde for expelling the Attorney General and Solicitor General representatives from the ULS Council. Rutaro on Wednesday through his lawyers of MC Ford Advocates withdrew the suit …
Read More »Attorney General asks court to dismiss Ebiru’s application seeking to halt trial
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Attorney General has asked the Anti Corruption Court to dismiss an application in which the former Executive Director of Uganda National Bureau of Standards David Livingstone Ebiru is seeking to halt his trial on bribery charges until investigations are completed. The prosecution alleges that …
Read More »Attorney General questions list of 150 war claimants
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Attorney General has returned the names of at least 155 war debt claimants in Kitgum for re-verification. Kitgum district had sent a list of 1,463 war debt claimants to the office of the Attorney General, but only 763 are reflected in the master …
Read More »Attorney General to re-table narcotic drugs bill
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among, has guided the Attorney General, Kiryowa Kiwanuka, to re-introduce the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Bill, 2016, following its annulment by the Constitutional Court on 05 May 2023 due to lack of quorum. “Since the bill is …
Read More »MPs, Attorney General clash over fate of Anti-Gay Bill
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have accused the Attorney General of frustrating the Anti-Homosexuality Bill that was unanimously passed by the House last month. It has emerged that the Deputy Attorney General, Jackson Karugaba Kafuuzi, also the Kyaka South County Member of Parliament wrote to the President …
Read More »‘Amend existing laws to address homosexuality’
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Attorney General, Kiryowa Kiwanuka has said that existing laws like the Penal Code Act can be amended to cater for provisions made in the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2023. He listed several clauses in the Bill which he said are already catered for in existing …
Read More »Attorney General “Confused” About trial of civilians in Military Courts
Kampala, Uganda | THEINDEPENDENT | The Attorney General, Kiryowa Kiwanuka has said that court rulings on whether the military court should try civilians plunged his chambers into confusion. Kiwanuka, in a speech at the opening of the New Law Year 2023, said the confusion is arising from the judgments from the …
Read More »Attorney General asks BOU to explain ‘illegal’ sale of Co-operative Bank assets
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Bank of Uganda has been tasked to explain how it seized and sold off assets of the Co-operative Bank of Uganda, without liquidating the institution. According to the records available, the Co-operative Bank was registered in 1964 under the Cooperatives Act and has never …
Read More »Election violence victim asks court to allow him proceed without Attorney General
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ghetto television journalist, Ashiraf Saif-llah Kasirye has asked High Court to allow him to proceed without the Attorney General, in the case in which he wants the government to compensate him for the injuries he sustained at the hands of security personnel during the January …
Read More »Court gives Attorney General one month to verify Teso war claimants
Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Soroti has given the Attorney General one month to verify Teso war claimants. In 2005, Okupa and 2,020 others dragged the Attorney General to court over the violation of fundamental human rights and freedoms and the court delivered a ruling against …
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