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Age Limit, To Remove or Not To? (Prof. Bakibinge and Hon. Kafuzi)

Submitted by Webadmin on 27 September 2019 - 1:20pm

Prof. Bakibinge :”The School of Law starts from the position of 1966 when we had a pigeon hall constitution which was passed under duress”

Rights activists want govt to address marginalized poor

Submitted by Webadmin on 27 September 2019 - 3:30pm

Rights activists want Government to address the underlying causes that drive the less privileged into marginal areas such as road/railway reserves, wetlands and streets

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Prof. Bakibinga to head Nyanzi probe committee

Submitted by Webadmin on 27 September 2019 - 3:42pm

Prof. John Ddumba Ssentamu the Vice Chancellor Makerere University has named an eight member committee to investigate the standoff between Dr. Stella Nyanzi a research fellow at its institute of social research (MISR) and the Director Prof. Mahmood Mamdani.

Unveiled on Wednesday in a statement circulated on the university's webmail, the committee will be headed by David Justus Bakibinga, a professor of commercial law at the school of law.

Mbabazi election petition: Court sets Monday to rule on amicus curiae

Submitted by Webadmin on 27 September 2019 - 3:47pm

On March 9 and 10 this week, nine Makerere University school of law lecturers and nine Civil Society Organizations, respectively, applied to court to be allowed to join the petition.

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Judge slams lawyers over shoddy work

Submitted by Webadmin on 27 September 2019 - 3:56pm

Lydia Mugambe was making a presentation on the ‘Legal Perspectives from Parliamentary Election Petitions 2016’

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Lawyer Kiwanuka Kiryowa chats with the director of civil litigation in the Attorney General’s office Denis Bireje during symposium. Photo by Tony Rujuta

Legal education in Uganda: the growing need for a research-based approach to teaching

Submitted by Webadmin on 27 September 2019 - 4:05pm

  • One of the key skills nurtured within higher education is the ability to read and understand complex academic studies and to make sound judgement over them.

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Makerere starts giving scholarships to underprivileged female law students

Submitted by Webadmin on 27 September 2019 - 4:12pm

MAKERERE University has partnered with Ms. JD International, a US-based non-profit organisation, to provide scholarships to unprivileged first-year students in the Faculty of Law.

News in brief

Submitted by Webadmin on 27 September 2019 - 4:14pm

Four appointed to Law Council
KAMPALA - The Law Council chairman, Justice John Wilson Tsekooko, has named the four members appointed to the lawyers’ regulatory body.

Museveni tells law students to be honest

Submitted by Webadmin on 27 September 2019 - 4:18pm

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has urged law students to be honest and competent in order to dispense high quality justice.

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