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The latest ruling of the High Court which declared that Bank of Africa was in breach of contract for freezing Victoria Candles Limited’s account after Shs1.7bn landed on the same is just an addition to the list of troubled relationships between Ugandan commercial banks and their clients.

Every month, a Ugandan High Court Judge earns 95.7 times more than his or her driver, an analysis of the salaries of the top fat cats at the country’s judiciary indicates. The debate on this salary disparity was months ago occasioned by threats by a frustrated driver who said, in a viral recording, that he was pondering ramming his boss’ vehicle into a truck so that he could kill the judge and his bodyguard.

Opposition politician Dr Kizza Besigye is concerned over the state of the relationship between the judicial and executive arms of government after a court decision halting the seizure of Gaddafi National Mosque and other Muslim properties followed President Yoweri Museveni’s letter to the Chief Justice complaining over lack of common sense in a judge’s ruling.

Attempts by Justice Esther Kisaakye Kitimbo to exit the Supreme Court bench have hit a roadblock after the appointing authority referred her request for early retirement to a tribunal.

In the 2021 presidential election, Justice Kisaakye ruled in favour of main opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine. The most experienced member of the Supreme Court bench, Kisaakye was engaged in a war of words with her boss Chief Justice Alfonse Chigamoy Owiny-Dollo.

Uganda Women Parliamentarians Association (Uwopa) and Tororo District Woman MP Sarah Opendi has assured Ugandans that what they do in their bedrooms will be not be the subject of the Marriage Bill.

A court in Kenya has temporarily blocked the issuance of an oil importation certificate to the Uganda National Oil Company (Unoc) after fuel dealers filed a petition seeking similar orders.

The faces of four men accused of killing Joan Kagezi, a Senior Assistant DPP and Head of the International Crimes Department in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP), have been revealed.

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) has described latest developments in investigations into the murder of prosecutor Joan Kagezi. The ODPP, whose director…

Justice Esther Kisaakye, a Supreme Court judge who ruled in favor of National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine in the 2021 presidential…