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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Kampala has finally arrested lawyer Male Mabirizi. He has been arrested over an 18 month jail term handed to him for contempt of court. The arrest of Mabirizi comes exactly a week after the High Court Civil Division Judge Musa Ssekaana issued …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court has ordered the immediate arrest of controversial lawyer Male Mabirizi to serve 18 months in jail for contempt of court. Civil Division High Court, Judge Musa Ssekaana issued the orders after finding Mabirizi guilty of contempt of court for the second time. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Law Development Centre Court has discharged National Unity Platform (NUP) President Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu on charges of obtaining registration by false pretense at Makerere University. The Court presided over by Grade One Magistrate Augustine Alule has discharged Kyagulanyi on the criminal charges that …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Kampala has summoned city lawyer Male Mabirizi to appear and explain why he shouldn’t be sent to jail for contempt of court. In a notice signed by Judge Musa Ssekaana, lawyer Mabirizi is required to appear before his court on …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | City lawyer Hassan Male Mabirizi-Kiwanuka has filed a case suing the government over the re-appointment of Johnson Byabashaija, the Commissioner-General of Uganda Prisons. He also wants the same court to review the appointment of Major General Geoffrey Tumusiime Kasigazi as the Deputy Inspector …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Director of Public Prosecutions-DPP has made a U-turn and declared interest in prosecuting Pastor Aloysius Bugingo over his reported marriage to Susan Makula Nantaba. Bugingo is accused of committing bigamy and contracting marriage by customary law with Susan Makula when already married to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | City Lawyer Male Mabirizi has petitioned the East African Court of Justice over the recent  extra judicial killings of terrorism suspects in the country. In his petition filed in the East African Court of Justice in Kampala Subregistry , Mabirizi wants the court to …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Kampala has fixed dates to decide on two separate applications challenging the decision by the government to install surveillance devices in vehicles and other vessels. The two applications were filed by city lawyer Male Mabirizi and Legal Brains Trust, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The head of High Court Civil Division Justice Musa Ssekaana has warned Kampala City Lawyer Male Mabirizi against filing similar cases and withdrawing them after rejecting the Judge they have been allocated to. In his letter dated June 10 2021, Ssekaana notes that Mabirizi filed a …

Withdrawal of presidential election petition leaves `cadre judges’ on the defensive Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | On Feb. 22 former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi in an unsurprising move announced his decision to withdraw his presidential election petition in the Supreme Court in Kampala challenging the declared victory of President …